winter holiday
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]winter holiday (countable and uncountable, plural winter holidays)
- A multiday time of rest from work or studies during the winter months.
- Coordinate terms: summer holiday, summer vacation
- Near-synonym: the holidays
- This year we'll spend our winter holiday in Spain.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see winter, holiday: a holiday (holy day or comparable) that falls during the winter; especially, one that celebrates winter or, most specifically, the winter solstice.
- Synonym: winter festival
- Coordinate term: summer holiday
- Most religions have at least one winter holiday.