vacation

A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation, especially one with pay granted to an employee.

A holiday.

A fixed period of holidays, especially one during which a school, court, or business suspends activities.

The act or an instance of vacating.

To take or spend a vacation.

The act of vacating.

A space of time, or a condition, in which there is an intermission of a stated employment or procedure; a stated interval in a round of duties; a holiday.

Specifically— In law, temporary cessation of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term of court and the beginning of the next; the period during which a court holds no sessions; recess; non-term. In England the vacations are—Christmas vacation, commencing on December 24th and ending January 6th; Easter vacation, commencing on Good Friday and ending on Easter Tuesday; Whitsun vacation, commencing on the Saturday before and ending on the Tuesday after Whitsunday; and the long vacation, commencing on August 13th and ending on October 23d.

The intermission of the regular studies of an educational institution of any kind, when the students have a recess; holidays: as, the summer vacation.