vacation
About 6.47 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
We were on vacation in Florida this year.
- noun An extended period of leisure time away from work or school.
Schoolchildren are on vacation this week.
- noun A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
- noun The act of vacating something; moving out.
The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.
- noun The act of making legally void.
- noun Freedom from some business or activity.
- noun Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
- verb To spend or take a vacation.
This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.
Similar words
holiday holidays tourism tourist travel resort infirmary journey trip recess
Often followed by
in and time of to with at from home
Word family
vacationed vacationer vacationers vacationing vacations
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