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# holiday

«holiday» in Mova's school dictionary: **a day when people do not go to school or work, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (holiday, holidays); verb (holiday, holidays, holidayed, holidaying — mostly British)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A holiday is a day when people do not go to school or work, often because of a special event, like a public holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#m1)

2) A holiday is a trip you take for fun and rest, away from home (in American English this is a vacation). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#m2)

3) The holidays are a longer time off school, like the summer holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, a span of days or weeks counted (days left, days per week), or money spent on a trip (cost per day, per person). In everyday life: school holidays, public holidays, going on holiday to the beach, packing a suitcase. In safety: sun cream and swimming rules on holiday. In stories, a holiday is often where an adventure happens. Phrases: «on holiday», «go on holiday», «the summer holidays», «a public holiday», «holiday homework».

### examples

- The holiday lasts 14 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x1)
- They spent 300 dollars on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x2)
- She read 2 books a week during the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x3)
- How many days of the holiday are left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x4)
- We are going on holiday to the seaside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x5)
- Monday is a public holiday, so there is no school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x6)
- In the summer holidays we went camping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x7)
- He sent us a postcard from his holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x8)
- Thanksgiving is a big holiday in the USA and Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x9)
- On all their holidays, the Pygmies had excellent sport with Antaeus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/#x10)

### note

Countable: a holiday, two holidays. «On holiday» (British) = «on vacation» (American); in the USA «the holidays» often means the winter festive time. A time span: days per week, days left, money per day. Trap: «2 weeks of holiday» must be changed to 14 days when the rate is per day. A week is 7 days.

### In the corpora

- [A honeymoon is a holiday a couple takes just after the wedding, to rest and celebrate, just the two of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/15/)
- [He spent his holiday in rainy Skegness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/1/)
- [Dogs get stressed when a routine suddenly changes, for example when the holidays end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/14/)
- [He feels like the only one on holiday, and that is half the fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/3/)
- ["Happy holidays" (mostly US) is a seasonal greeting that avoids naming Christmas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «holiday» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/holiday/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.