Holyday

Word HOLYDAY
Character 7
Hyphenation ho ly day
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Holyday"

What do we mean by holyday?

A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.

A day declared free from work by the state or government.

A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.

A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).

A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.

A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.

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The word "holyday" in example sentences

"holyday," but many holidays, like Independence Day and Labor Day, are not holy. ❋ Unknown (1984)

For this is Nature's holyday [2] I also observed that round the whole scene were distributed a great variety of tables set with the choicest and most tempting refreshments; such they apeard to be; but whither on being touch'd as in some other enchanted woods and castles they would have vanished from before me I cannot tell as I did not put it to the trial. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Canon 1248 §1 The obligation of assisting at Mass is satisfied wherever Mass is celebrated in a catholic rite either on a holyday itself or on the evening of the previous day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anyway its friday can't be upsetting the faithful on their holyday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Last year 24 Jewish Demacrate members of congress voted to ban Christmass from being a holyday. ❋ Unknown (2006)

August 15 marks the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady into heaven, a holyday of obligation. ❋ Matilda (2008)

Geislaer — “the gates locked, and guarded by these lanzknechts, and, if we were to try to force our way, these fellows, whose everyday business is war, might make wild work of us that only fight of a holyday.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

So the Fair Maid of Perth laid aside the splendid hawking glove which she was embroidering for the Lady Drummond, and putting on her holyday kirtle, prepared to attend her father to the Blackfriars monastery, which was adjacent to Couvrefew Street in which they lived. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The people around, and in the adjacent galleries, most of whom had the air of citizens in their holyday dresses, commented a good deal on these proceedings, and were inclined strongly to make part with the Immortals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I overheard an enquiry at Westminster Cathedral today as to whether tomorrow is a holyday of obligation or not - probaby by a tourist. ❋ Joanna Bogle (2007)

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: ❋ Unknown (2006)

After the Halloween condemnation as an imported holyday to terrorize children, Chavez has somehow alluded to Santa as been too much of a yanqi symbol. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Ye shall have gay holyday times, and holyday fare, and anything the old man can do, and anything the old man can give to make you merry, he will do, and he will give, because you have come back gallantly, and have not brought dishonour to the roost where ye were hatched — but more than this I will not agree to. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Our numbers are too few for the defence of every point, and the men complain that they can nowhere show themselves, but they are the mark for as many arrows as a parish-butt on a holyday even. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And in requital of such good wishes, our good master gives you a holyday. ❋ Unknown (2002)

I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. ❋ Unknown (1999)

¶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Rom. ❋ Unknown (1999)

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