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# Holiday

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A day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration? but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observation or activity.

Jewish holidays:

  [Yom Kippur]?
  Passover
  [Rosh Hashanah]?
  Purim?
  Sukkot?
  Hannukah?

Christian holidays:

  Christmas?
  [Good Friday]?
  Easter
  Pentecost?
  [All Saints Day]?

National holidays:

        United States

  Thanksgiving?
  [Memorial Day]?
  [Independence Day]?
  [Labor Day]?
  [Colombus Day]?
  [Veteran's Day]?
  [New Years Day]?
  [Martin Luther King Day]?
  [President's Day]?

...

Generally, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, a holiday is a period spent away from home or business? in travel? or recreation (e.g., "I'm going on holiday to Majorca? next week") like an American "vacation".

What's their word for what Americans call "holidays," then?

BTW, we need to add all those national holiday articles, recently added to Wikipedia, to this page.

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