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Definitions for holidays
hol·i·days

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Wiktionary

  1. holidaysnoun

    The season around Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's Day.

    Where will you be spending the holidays?

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Holidays

    Days commemorating events. Holidays also include vacation periods.

Editors Contribution

  1. holidaysnoun

    Plural noun of the word holiday.

    We love to explore different places when we go on holidays.


    Submitted by MaryC on May 8, 2016  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'holidays' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3743

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'holidays' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1749

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of holidays in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of holidays in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of holidays in a Sentence

  1. Darcy Miller:

    The holidays are such a busy time, but the week between Christmas and New Year’s is great because it really feels like a break, and it’s nice to use that downtime to create.

  2. Patricia Ruppert:

    I'm talking day and night, weekends, holidays, it didn't matter.

  3. Mitch McConnell:

    I think everyone agrees on a bipartisan basis those are the three things we must do here at the end of the session -- fund the government, make sure we don't have any retroactive tax increases and follow the tradition of many years which is to pass a National Defense Authorization Act, i'm confident the Senate will do that before we depart for the holidays.

  4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

    The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

  5. Elaine Rodino:

    I really think it's important for people to spend time thinking about their issues, if they do have these sad feelings during the holidays, think of a thought and kind of realize why they're having the bad thoughts. So that they kind of know, ‘Oh, well, it's because I had that experience or it's because I'm having this experience.’.

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