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semiholiday

noun

Etymology

From semi- + holiday.

  1. inherited from hāliġdæġ — “holy day, Sabbath”
  2. inherited from halyday
  3. prefixed as semiholiday — “semi + holiday”

Definitions

  1. A day having certain aspects of a holiday.

    • […] within a forty-year period, the pickers changed from Indian families to local Euro-American women and children who were encouraged by the farmers to regard picking as a semiholiday to Mexican migrant families.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA