English Dictionary
Definition holiday in British English
holiday
noun
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
noun
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
Differences between British and American English: holiday
In the UK, a holiday, often called your holidays, is a period of time during which you do not go to school or work, and usually you go to a place away from home to relax: Where are you going for your holiday? American speakers call this period a vacation. In the US, holiday refers to a single day fixed by law when people do not have to go to school or work: I forgot that Monday’s a holiday. In the UK, this is usually called a bank holiday. Both American and English speakers also call this a public holiday. When American speakers say the holidays or the holiday season, they are referring to the period of time that includes Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s Day: Have you got any special plans for the holidays?
a period of time when you do not work or study and do things for pleasure instead. The American word is vacation
a holiday resort
Our trip to Victoria Falls was the holiday of a lifetime (=a very special holiday).
a day that is a celebration of something special, on which you do not have to work or go to school
1st May is a holiday in many European countries.
the number of days or weeks during a year when you do not have to work but are paid. The American word is vacation
an unexpected gap in a data set, as in cloud cover over satellite imagery or missing reports from a regularly scheduled series of reports
Additional photography was needed because of holidays in the original collection.
