Similar words: holiday, holidays, on holiday, half-hour, holiday pay, tax holiday, bank holiday, bank holidays. Meaning: n. a day on which half is free from work or duty.
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1. A half-holiday was granted in celebration: a reminder of the days when Pemberton granted half-holidays to celebrate his birthday.
2. The whole school was treated to an extra half-holiday after the governors' annual visit.
3. But it's half-holiday, Polly: if you could only stop till he comes home - you and Miss Nipper, leastways, ' said Jemima, mindful in good time of the dignity of the black-eyed.
4. Decorations for bravery won by past pupils were announced at morning prayers, and invariably earned the boys a half-holiday.
5. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understanding little of the matter in hand, except that it gave them a half-holiday.
6. The entrance exam is coming, the school only a half-holiday a week.
7. The story goes that the ladies running the school were so relieved when Churchill left and they declared a half-holiday.
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