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vacation
Part of Speech: noun
Results: 5
2. Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
3. Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
4. The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.
Examples of usage:
- " Well, I suppose you'll take a long vacation now," said Mary Nestor, to Tom, when he called on her one evening to present her a unique ring, with the stones set in some of the platinum he had dug in the Siberian mine. - "Tom Swift and his Air Glider or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure", Victor Appleton.
- This leaves about five months of vacation, or of time between terms, when much that has been learned is forgotten. - "Rural Life and the Rural School", Joseph Kennedy.
- Strangers always do too little or too much; and there is a young man at Littleworthy for the long vacation who can help on a Sunday. - "The Clever Woman of the Family", Charlotte M. Yonge.