Half-holiday

Quick meaning: Half-holiday is a noun meaning Half of a working or school day set aside for recreation on a special occasion.

Meaning

Half of a working or school day set aside for recreation on a special occasion.

More Meanings

1. (historical) A religious festival lasting for half a day.

Example Sentences

But this [Carmentalia] was an half holiday, (intercisus); for after mid day it was dies profestus, a common work day.

Bradly was late getting into town—he had forgotten that Saturday was a half-holiday. But he was in time to lay in stores at Cooley’s, and call at the butcher’s and greengrocer’s while the parcels were being made up.

For they had […] some appointed times, appropriated to the worship of their severall gods, as before was shewed: their holydayes, & half-holydayes, according to that estimation which their gods had gotten in the World.

A rumor would start that an extra half-holiday was going to be given (which happened fairly frequently during the war, whenever an old boy had been decorated with a D.S.O. or an M.C. A V.C. ranked as a whole holiday, but this only happened twice).

Word Forms

• half-holidays

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include holiday, halftime, halfe, half, halfendeal, half-staff.

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