VACATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does vacation mean?
• VACATION (noun)
The noun VACATION has 2 senses:
1. leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
2. the act of making something legally void
Familiarity information: VACATION used as a noun is rare.
• VACATION (verb)
The verb VACATION has 1 sense:
1. spend or take a vacation
Familiarity information: VACATION used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VACATION (noun)
Meaning:
Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
holiday; vacation
Context examples:
we get two weeks of vacation every summer / we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico
Hypernyms ("vacation" is a kind of...):
leisure; leisure time (time available for ease and relaxation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vacation"):
half-term (a short vacation about halfway through a school term)
vac (informal term for vacation)
field day; outing; picnic (a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering)
honeymoon (a holiday taken by a newly married couple)
paid vacation (a vacation from work by an employee with pay granted)
Meaning:
The act of making something legally void
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("vacation" is a kind of...):
abrogation; annulment; repeal (the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation)
• VACATION (verb)
Meaning:
Spend or take a vacation
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
holiday; vacation
Hypernyms (to "vacation" is one way to...):
pass; spend (pass (time) in a specific way)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vacation"):
honeymoon (spend a holiday after one's marriage)
Sentence frames:
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