<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person</li><li>any day of exemption from work (working day)</li><li>Synonyms: break, vacation</li><li>a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.: New businesses may be granted a one-year tax holiday</li><li>a religious feast day; holy day, especially any of several usually commemorative holy days observed in Judaism</li><li>Sometimes holidays: Chiefly British, a period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation</li><li>an unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of or relating to a festival; festive; joyous: a holiday mood</li><li>suitable for a holiday: holiday attire</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>Chiefly British: to vacation; to holiday at the seaside</li></ul>