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Holiday vs Antiholiday - What's the difference?

holiday | antiholiday |

As nouns the difference between holiday and antiholiday

is that holiday is a day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed while antiholiday is a holiday celebrated as a form of opposition to normal holidays.

As a verb holiday

is to take a period of time away from work or study.

As a proper noun Holiday

is {{surname}.

As an adjective antiholiday is

opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.

holiday

English

(wikipedia holiday)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.
    • Today is a Wiccan holiday !
  • A day declared free from work by the state or government.
  • A period of one or more days taken off work by an employee for leisure.
  • A period during which pupils and students do not attend their school or university.
  • A period taken off work or study for travel or leisure.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • An unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface.Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/holiday (accessed: June 26, 2007).

    • Synonyms

    * (day on which a festival, etc, is traditionally observed''): feast day (''celebratory religious event ) * (day declared free from work by the government ): Bank Holiday (UK), national holiday * (period of one or more days taken off work by an employee for leisure ): leave, time off * (period taken off work or study for travel ): vacation (US)

    Derived terms

    * bank holiday * busman's holiday * go on holiday * high days and holidays * holiday season * holiday-maker, holidaymaker * holidayer * public holiday * summer holiday

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take a period of time away from work or study.
  • (British) To spend a period of time for travel.

    • References

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    antiholiday

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season
  • * {{quote-news, year=1993, date=February 12, author=Jack Helbig, title=Hellcab, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Originally entitled Hellcab Does Christmas and marketed as a hip antiholiday holiday show, Will Kern's incredibly black comedy about a day in the life of a poor beleaguered cab driver was never, strictly speaking, a holiday show. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A holiday celebrated as a form of opposition to normal holidays
  • * {{quote-news, year=2002, date=December 20, author=Douglas Wolk, title=What's Left?, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The idea was to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, an antiholiday invented by the Vancouver-based Media Foundation in the early 90s that takes place on what's traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. " }}