Day and Holiday

Day

Day noun - The hours of light between one night and the next.

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Holiday and day are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Holiday" instead a noun "Day".

Nearby Word: daytime

Holiday noun - A day on which work is suspended by law or custom.

Usage example: it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover

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Day and holiday are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Day" instead a noun "Holiday".

Nearby Words: holidayed, holidaying

full	full day	full holiday
nice	nice day	nice holiday
special	special day	special holiday
best	best day	best holiday
Other adjectives: long, normal, typical, short, current, original, free, single, actual, entire, real, big, quiet, terrible, important, given, final, working, last, different, modern.

The most important thing to remember, especially for American tropers, is that Christmas is the United Kingdom's premier holiday and day of celebrationnote (though in Scotland it was once second to Hogmanay).

Source: Useful Notes / A Very British Christmas
Theme Naming: The books are named after a time of day, a day of the week, or a holiday.

Source: Literature / The Magic Treehouse
If any holiday with a permanent date falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a "Compensation Holiday" to allow workers to still have the day off as they would have prior.

Source: Useful Notes / Japanese Holidays

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