summer holiday

English

Noun

summer holiday (countable and uncountable, plural summer holidays)

2. (Commonwealth, Ireland) A vacation taken during the summer.

   Coordinate term: winter holiday

   1. (Commonwealth, Ireland) A school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year.

      Synonyms: (Commonwealth, Ireland) summer holidays, (US, Canada) summer vacation

      Coordinate term: winter holiday

3. (figurative) An easy and pleasant experience.

   Near-synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing

   This year's inventorying project was a summer holiday in comparison with how it used to go.

   • 2023 June 17, Emma Smith, “Malta 0-4 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Trips to Malta have not always been a summer holiday for Southgate's England - a World Cup qualifier here in 2017 saw them fail to score until the 53rd minute before three late strikes put some undeserved gloss on that 4-0 scoreline.

5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see summer,‎ holiday: a holiday (holy day or comparable) that falls during the summer; especially, one that celebrates summer or, most specifically, the summer solstice.

   Coordinate terms: winter holiday, winter festival, Spring Festival

   Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.