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microvacation

microvacation noun: a very brief vacation; a momentary respite from the cares of everyday life.

Noun

microvacation (plural microvacations)

  1. A very brief vacation; a momentary respite from the cares of everyday life.
    • With only a few tree silhouettes, and both the freeways and El Camino Real miraculously silent, for just these moments Ralph Sr., appreciative of peace as anybody, could take another of what he'd come to think of as microvacations on an island of time fragile and precious as any Tahiti or one of...1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Penguin Books, published 1991, →ISBN, page 92
    Synonyms:
    nanobreak

Synonyms of microvacation

Forms of microvacation

pluralmicrovacations
alternative formmicro-vacation

Origin of microvacation

From micro- + vacation.

Questions about microvacation

What does microvacation mean?
Microvacation means a very brief vacation; a momentary respite from the cares of everyday life.
What part of speech is microvacation?
Microvacation is a noun.
What is the plural of microvacation?
The plural of microvacation is microvacations.

Words near microvacation in the dictionary

  1. microultracentrifuges
  2. microunit
  3. microunits
  4. microutrophin
  5. microutrophins
  6. microvacation
  7. microvacations
  8. microvacuolar
  9. microvacuolated
  10. microvacuolation
  11. microvacuole

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