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bank holidays

bank holidays is the plural of bank holiday.

Meaning of bank holiday

Noun

bank holiday (plural bank holidays)

  1. (Ireland, UK) A weekday, often a Monday, on which most businesses are closed, and granted to workers as a national holiday.
    • On a bank holiday weekend.
  2. (euphemistic) A closure of banks in a jurisdiction to curtail or prevent a bank run.

Noun capitalized: Bank Holidays

Bank Holidays

  1. (plural) plural of Bank Holiday

Questions about bank holidays

What is bank holidays the plural of?
Bank holidays is the plural of bank holiday.
What part of speech is bank holidays?
Bank holidays is a noun.

Words near bank holidays in the dictionary

  1. bank effect
  2. bank effects
  3. bank engine
  4. bank engines
  5. bank holiday
  6. bank holidays
  7. bank machine
  8. bank machines
  9. bank manager
  10. bank managers
  11. bank mix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bank holidays (page history and authors); Bank Holidays (page history and authors); bank holiday (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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