Holiday

Definition

holiday /'hɒlǝdeÇ; Brit also- di/ n (က) ( esp Brit ) (also esp US vacation ) (often pl ) အားလပ္ရက္ (မ်ား)။ ပိတ္ရက္(မ်ား)။ အေပ်ာ္ခရီး။ a skiing/ walking/ camping holiday ❍ an adventure holiday ❍ the holiday season ❍ a holiday cottage/ resort ❍ holiday bookings/ insrance ❍ the school holidays ❍ the Christmas holidays ❍ My boss has gone away on holiday. ❍ We're going to Spain for our summer holiday (s). ❍ I'm taking a two-week holiday/ two weeks holiday. ❍ I'm entitled to 20 day's paid holiday a year. See also HOLS, PACKAGE HOLIDAY (ခ) ပိတ္ရက္။ a public holiday ❍ Sunday is a holiday in Christian countries. See also BANK HOLIDAY ( esp Brit ) (also esp US vacation ) v အားလပ္ရက္ခံစားသည္။ အားလပ္ရက္အေပ်ာ္ခရီး ထြက္သည္။ a holidaying couple ❍ They're holidaying on the west coast of Ireland. ❏ holiday camp n ( esp Brit ) အားလပ္ရက္အနားယူစခန္း။ ❏ holiday centre n ( Brit ) အေပ်ာ္ခရီးစခန္း။ ❏ holiday-maker n ( esp Brit ) အားလပ္ရက္အေပ်ာ္ခရီးထြက္ သူ။ The plane was packed with Dutch holiday makers.

Examples

1. They’re going to Jamaica for their holidays.
2. [be on holiday] : I am away on holiday for the next two weeks.
3. [the Christmas/Easter/summer holidays] : The kids get bored by the end of the summer holidays.
4. A golfing/skiing/seaside holiday
5. A holiday resort
6. Our trip to Victoria Falls was the holiday of a lifetime (=a very special holiday).
7. [go on holiday] : Several years ago
8. I went on holiday with some friends.
9. 1st May is a holiday in many European countries.
10. Employees are entitled to four weeks’ annual holiday.