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holiday

/hol-i-dey/US // ˈhɒl ɪˌdeɪ //UK // (ˈhɒlɪˌdeɪ, -dɪ) //

假期,节日,假日,节假日

Related Words

festivity节日活动,节庆活动,庆典活动,节日recess小憩,休会,休会期间,小息festival节日,庆典,节庆,庆典活动feast盛宴,宴席,大餐,宴会anniversary周年纪念,周年纪念日,周年庆,纪念日vacation假期,假日,度假,度假期间break突破,休息,断裂,断layoff裁员,解雇,裁减,遣散gala晚会,聚会,宴会,盛大的celebration庆祝活动,庆典,庆典活动,典礼leave离开,离开这里,离开了,离开时fete狂欢节,庆典活动,庆典,狂欢fiesta庆典活动,节日,宗教节日,庆典liberty自由,自由度,自由权,自由的jubilee千禧年,禧年,千禧之年,欢庆holy day圣日,神日,圣天,圣日子red-letter day红字日,红字之日,红日,红日子long weekend长周末,长周期,长周未,长周saint's day圣人节,圣徒日,圣日,圣徒节

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
    • : any day of exemption from work.
    • : a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.: New businesses may be granted a one-year tax holiday.
    • : a religious feast day; holy day, especially any of several usually commemorative holy days observed in Judaism.
    • : Sometimes holidays. Chiefly British. a period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation.
    • : an unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a festival; festive; joyous: a holiday mood.
    • : suitable for a holiday: holiday attire.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Chiefly British. to vacation: to holiday at the seaside.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncelebratory day; time off
Forms: holidays
Synonyms
anniversary周年纪念,周年纪念日,周年庆,纪念日break突破,休息,断裂,断celebration庆祝活动,庆典,庆典活动,典礼feast盛宴,宴席,大餐,宴会festival节日,庆典,节庆,庆典活动festivity节日活动,节庆活动,庆典活动,节日gala晚会,聚会,宴会,盛大的layoff裁员,解雇,裁减,遣散recess小憩,休会,休会期间,小息vacation假期,假日,度假,度假期间fete狂欢节,庆典活动,庆典,狂欢fiesta庆典活动,节日,宗教节日,庆典jubilee千禧年,禧年,千禧之年,欢庆leave离开,离开这里,离开了,离开时liberty自由,自由度,自由权,自由的day of rest休息日,休憩日,歇息日,休闲日few days off几天假,几天假期,几天的假期,几天的休息时间gone fishing去钓鱼,去钓鱼了,钓鱼去了,去捕鱼holy day圣日,神日,圣天,圣日子long weekend长周末,长周期,长周未,长周red-letter day红字日,红字之日,红日,红日子saint's day圣人节,圣徒日,圣日,圣徒节

Examples

  • To that end, several companies are setting aside Election Day as a paid holiday to ensure that their organization safeguards rather than impedes employees’ ability to vote.

  • Shapps was forced to return early from a family holiday in Spain in July after the country was placed on the quarantine list.

  • Hi there, this is Katherine in London filling in for Eamon, who is off on a well-deserved holiday.

  • It remains to be seen whether consumers will return to stores in large numbers for holiday 2020 shopping.

  • On top of this, Prime Day has likely moved from Q3 to Q4, creating unprecedented crossover with the holiday buying season.

  • Day a state holiday, 21 years after President Reagan made it a federal holiday.

  • Not long after the holiday presents are put away and the guests have gone home, another season begins.

  • While traveling this holiday season, a relative and I were pulled over by a police officer.

  • Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.

  • Gävle Goat must be dreading the imminent holiday and his fifty-fifty chance of destruction.

  • Ascension being a holiday here, all we pianists made up a walking party out to Tiefurt, about two miles distant.

  • For instance, few workmen will take a holiday; they prefer a "day's out" or "play."

  • Isaacson did not visit Mrs. Chepstow again before he left London for his annual holiday.

  • Indeed, it made me understand for the first time that even a Bank Holiday need not be a day of wrath and mourning.

  • In 1878 Mathieson and I took a short holiday together and crossed to Ireland.

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