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Definition: THE HOLIDAYS |
THE HOLIDAYS1. Any fixed or usual period for relaxation or festivity; especially, Christmas and New Year's day with the intervening time. |
Crosswords: THE HOLIDAYS |
| English words defined with "THE HOLIDAYS": Black Monday ♦ caravanning, celebrate, continuous ♦ Grand days ♦ keep ♦ observe ♦ Plow Monday ♦ season ♦ uninterrupted. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THE HOLIDAYS": BLACK MONDAY ♦ Flow to market, fringe benefits ♦ May-pole ♦ Plough Monday ♦ Rock Day ♦ Sans Culottides, Shipping holiday, Stir Up Sunday, Swinge-buckler ♦ virtual Friday ♦ wage supplements, Wages and salaries. (references) |
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Screenplays | See, this is what the holidays are all about. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) It's only for the holidays. (The Lion in Winter; writing credit: David Newman; Robert Benton) Do you think we should wait until after the holidays to take her down? (Jack Frost; writing credit: Michael Cooney; Jeremy Paige) How do you plan to spend the holidays, Mrs. Singer? (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Home for the Holidays (1972) Off for the Holidays (1910) The Dear Boys Home for the Holidays (1903) Home for the Holidays (1995) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Old Bachelor: How glad I am that I don't have to cart round endless bundles for greedy brats during the holidays.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | After the holidays.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Serve Coca-Cola--Refreshing surprise--Stock up for the holidays.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Soon they would be going home for the holidays. |
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Business | Changes affect not only the number of people involved in the tourism industry, but also the type and duration of the holidays. (references) | |
Economic History | Gambia, The | Gambians officially observe the holidays of both religions and practice religious tolerance. (references) |
Dominican Rep | Most imports are from the United States, but occasionally South American fruit is imported during the holidays. (references) | |
Travel | Russia | Russian Holidays: The holidays listed below are not an exclusive list. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "THE HOLIDAYS": during the holidays ♦ go away for the holidays. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "THE HOLIDAYS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | o prázdninách (during the holidays). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | wenn doch nur schon feiern wären (roll on the holidays). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ethay olidayshay tatile çıkmak (go away for the holidays, go down, go on holiday, holiday). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-h-i-l-o-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: holytides, isohyetal. | |
-3 letters: diastole, holidays, holytide, hotheads, hyalites, hyaloids, isolated, shithead, sodalite, sodality, steadily, toadyish. | |
-4 letters: aliyoth, daleths, deathly, details, dialyse, dilates, doltish, doylies, eoliths, hadiths, halides, halites, haloids, hastily, headily, healths, healthy, heliast, hoisted, holiday, holiest, hostile, hothead, hyalite, hyaloid, hyoidal, iodates, isohyet, isolate, isolead, ladyish, lithoed, loathed, loathes, shadily, shoaled, solated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 45 48 4F 4C 49 44 41 59 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001000 01001111 01001100 01001001 01000100 01000001 01011001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H E   H O L I D A Y S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0045 0048 004F 004C 0049 0044 0041 0059 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54423924249464338355953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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