Holyday
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Holyday is a noun meaning Alternative form of holiday used to emphasize holiness.
Meaning
Alternative form of holiday used to emphasize holiness.
More Meanings
- Obsolete form of holiday.
Example Sentences
You’ve heard the pitch (you can hardly escape it): We’ve turned a Christian holy'''day into a Roman holiday […]
This is the year to reverse the process of time and once again make the holiday a holyday; our Clausmas, a Christmas.
[…] they were soon on the beautiful common leading to Roehampton, where villas, which seem, like Beatrice's idea of King Pedro for a husband, made only for holydays […]
Having obtained the loan of a horse one holyday, he rode into a "faire forest," where, overcome by the heat, he lay down under the shade of a tree and meditated on his wretched state.
Word Forms
- holydays
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include holidam, ferie, daie, festino, domesday, hallow.
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