summer holiday en · NOUN
Meanings
- (Commonwealth, Ireland, countable, uncountable) A vacation taken during the summer.
- (Commonwealth, Ireland, countable, uncountable) A vacation taken during the summer. ▸ A school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year.
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable) An easy and pleasant experience.
Trips to Malta have not always been a summer holiday for Southgate's England - a World Cup qualifier here in 2017 saw them fail to score until the 53rd minute before three late strikes put some undeserved gloss on that 4-0 scoreline.
2023 June 17, Emma Smith, “Malta 0-4 England”, in BBC Sport:This year's inventorying project was a summer holiday in comparison with how it used to go.
Near-synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing
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(countable, uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see summer, holiday: a holiday (holy day or comparable) that falls during the summer; especially, one that celebrates summer or, most specifically, the summer solstice.
Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| summer holidays | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
winter holiday · winter festival · Spring Festival · winter holiday · winter holiday
Synonyms
no-brainer · piece of piss · cakewalk · breeze · walk in the park · summer holidays · plain sailing · easy pickings · picnic · low-hanging fruit · open and shut case · gimme · walk in the park · duck soup · piece of cake · doddle · walkover · child's play · summer vacation · cake and gingerbread · slam dunk · cinch · bagatelle · snap · layup · plane sailing · piece of cake · waltz · doss