vacation

noun

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

noun

A holiday.

noun

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

noun

The act or an instance of vacating.

intransitive verb

To take or spend a vacation.

noun

The act of vacating.

noun

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.

noun

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.

noun

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