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summer holidays

summer holidays is the plural of summer holiday.

summer holidays is the alternative form of summer holiday.

Meaning of summer holiday

Noun

summer holiday (countable and uncountable, plural summer holidays)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland) A vacation taken during the summer.
    1. (Commonwealth, Ireland) A school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year.
  2. (figuratively) An easy and pleasant experience.
    • Near-synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see summer, holiday: a holiday (holy day or comparable) that falls during the summer; especially, one that celebrates summer or, most specifically, the summer solstice.
    • Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.

Synonyms of summer holidays

Questions about summer holidays

What is summer holidays the plural of?
Summer holidays is the plural of summer holiday.

Words near summer holidays in the dictionary

  1. summer flounders
  2. summer grape
  3. Summer Hill
  4. Summer Hill Creek
  5. summer holiday
  6. summer holidays
  7. summer house
  8. summer houses
  9. Summer Island
  10. Summer Isles
  11. summer job

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