spring break

English

Noun

spring break (countable and uncountable, plural spring breaks)

1. A time of vacation from school that occurs during the spring.
   • 2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Boris Feldman, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:

     “We are on the edge of an AI surge that will make the dotcom boom look like spring break,” says Boris Feldman, co-head of Freshfield's global tech practice, who advises multiple “magnificent seven” tech companies.

2. (by extension) The week of vacation from school that occurs during the winter-spring semester, which does not necessarily fall within the official season of spring.

Synonyms

• March break

Coordinate terms

• summer vacation
• harvest break
• back-to-school

Derived terms

• spring breaker

Translations

vacation during the spring

• Finnish: kevätloma
• French: relâche (fr), relâche scolaire, semaine de relâche (fr) f (Canada)
• Japanese: 春休み (haruyasumi)
• Navajo: dąągo óltaʼ bitaʼ náhoʼaah
• Russian: весенние кани́кулы pl (vesennije kaníkuly)

Further reading

• spring break on Wikipedia.Wikipedia