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holiday season en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (Canada, US) The period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur, such as Halloween, American Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
   • What are your plans for the holiday season?
2. (British, English) A period in the summer when people go on holiday (vacation).
   • Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board? 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53:

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Relateds

happy holidays

Synonyms

Christmas season · yuletide · Christmastide · Thanksgivingtide · holidays · advent

Translations (22)

cmn 歲末年初 /岁末年初 (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · ru праздник сезон (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · vi kỳ nghỉ lễ (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · ru курортный сезон (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · fr Fêtes (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · ko 휴가철 (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · es temporada de vacaciones (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · fr saison des fêtes (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · cmn 佳節 /佳节 (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · fi lomakausi (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · es temporada festiva (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · ja 休暇シーズン (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · pl ferie (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · fr période des fêtes (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · de Ferienzeit (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · ko 연말연시 (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · ja 連休シーズン (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · es temporada feriada (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · fr temps des fêtes (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · fi lomasesonki (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · ka სადღესასწაულო სეზონი (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur) · cmn 假期 (period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur)