A holiday is a period of time during which you relax and enjoy yourself away from home. People sometimes refer to their holiday as their holidays.

A holiday is a day when people do not go to work or school because of a religious or national festival.

The holidays are the time when children do not have to go to school.

If you have a particular number of days' or weeks' holiday, you do not have to go to work for that number of days or weeks.

If you are holidaying in a place away from home, you are on holiday there.