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Webster 1913 Edition

Holyday

Ho′ly-dayˊ

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Noun.
1.
A religious festival.
2.
A secular festival; a holiday.
☞ Holiday is the preferable and prevailing spelling in the second sense. The spelling holy day or holyday in often used in the first sense.

Webster 1828 Edition

Holyday

HOL'YDAY

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Noun.
A day set apart for commemorating some important event in history; a festival intended to celebrate some event deemed auspicious to the welfare of a nation; particularly an anniversary festival, devoted to religious solemnities; as christmas holydays.
1.
A day of joy and gayety.
2.
A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement.

HOL'YDAY

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Adj.
Pertaining to a festival; as a holyday suit of clothes.

Definition 2024

holyday

holyday

See also: holy day

English

Noun

holyday ‎(plural holydays)

  1. Obsolete form of holiday.

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