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postholiday

postholiday adjective: occurring after, or as a consequence of, a holiday; often specifically after the holiday season of late December.

Adjective

postholiday (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after, or as a consequence of, a holiday; often specifically after the holiday season of late December
    • After the excitement of Christmas, we quickly sank into postholiday depression.

Origin of postholiday

From post- + holiday.

Questions about postholiday

What does postholiday mean?
Postholiday means occurring after, or as a consequence of, a holiday; often specifically after the holiday season of late December.
What part of speech is postholiday?
Postholiday is an adjective.

Words near postholiday in the dictionary

  1. postholder
  2. postholders
  3. posthole
  4. postholed
  5. postholes
  6. postholiday
  7. postholing
  8. postholocaust
  9. posthoplastic
  10. posthoplastician
  11. posthoplasticians

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