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half-holidays

half-holidays is the plural of half-holiday.

Meaning of half-holiday

Noun

half-holiday (plural half-holidays)

  1. Half of a working or school day set aside for recreation on a special occasion.
    • His memory is still reflected on with a degree of pleasure by some […] who can revive the long-buried ideas of what passed at that school about the year 1716 or 17; when Sir Daniel was always ready, if any body was wanted, to beg a half-holiday on Tuesday afternoons.1784, obituary of Daniel Wray in The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume 54, Part 1, p. 72
  2. (historical) A religious festival lasting for half a day.
    • For they had […] some appointed times, appropriated to the worship of their severall gods, as before was shewed: their holydayes, & half-holydayes, according to that estimation which their gods had gotten in the World.1636, Peter Heylyn, The History of the Sabbath, London: Henry Seile, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 83

Questions about half-holidays

What is half-holidays the plural of?
Half-holidays is the plural of half-holiday.

Words near half-holidays in the dictionary

  1. half-heartedly
  2. half-heartedness
  3. half-hitch
  4. half-hitches
  5. half-holiday
  6. half-holidays
  7. half-hour
  8. half-hourlong
  9. half-hourly
  10. half-hours
  11. half-human

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