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Holiday Season

Definition: Holiday Season

Holiday Season

Noun

1. A time when many people take holidays.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Holiday Season

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it? (A Charlie Brown Christmas; writing credit: Charles M. Schulz)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Holiday Season

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Books

  • Just in Time for Christmas: Canadian E-tailers Gear Up for the Holiday Season [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Mitigating Risk During the 2002 Holiday Season [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Holiday Season

Computer Images:
Holiday Season

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Photo Album: Holiday Season

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Get down with us at the Y.W.L.L. holiday season bash.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Holiday Season

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Business

Florida and California beaches attract visitors in July and August (Argentina winter holiday season). (references)

Likewise, ski resorts in the U.S. also allure many Argentine skiers from December to March (Argentine summer holiday season). (references)

Travel

Korea

This is doubly true during Lunar New Year and Chusok because of the holiday season. (references)

Norway

Easter (10-day holiday season for many Norwegians) and the week between December 23 and New Year also are periods of low business activity. (references)

Japan

In addition, many Japanese companies and government offices traditionally close during the New Year's holiday season (December 28-January 3), "Golden Week" (April 29-May 5) and the traditional O-Bon Festival (usually August 12-15). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Holiday Season

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  holiday season

43
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Holiday Season

Language Translations for "holiday season"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

ferieabonnement (holiday season ticket, US:vacation season ticket). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vakantie abonnement (holiday season ticket, US:vacation season ticket). (various references)

   

French

  

abonnement de vacances (holiday season ticket). (various references)

   

German

  

Ferienabonnement (holiday season ticket, US:vacation season ticket). (various references)

   

Italian

  

abbonamento per vacanze (holiday season ticket, US:vacation season ticket). (various references)

   

Manx

  

imbagh ny laghyn seyrey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olidayhay easonsay

   

Russian 

  

курортный сезон (holiday time), время летних отпусков (holiday time). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

abono de vacaciones (holiday season ticket, US:vacation season ticket). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Holiday Season

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-y"

-3 letters: adhesional.

-4 letters: adhesions, headsails, nailheads, nasalised, solenoids.

-5 letters: adenosis, adhesion, adonises, analysed, analyses, analysis, anisoles, assailed, assoiled, dhoolies, dialyses, eidolons, handless, handsels, headsail, holidays, holiness, hoodless, hyalines, hyaloids, hyoidean, isoleads, nailhead, nasalise, sandshoe, sashayed, seasonal, shandies, solenoid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Holiday Season


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 6F 6C 69 64 61 79      53 65 61 73 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100100 01100001 01111001 00100000 01010011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#108 &#105 &#100 &#97 &#121 &#32 &#83 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 006C 0069 0064 0061 0079      0053 0065 0061 0073 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

428178757067912537167858180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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