semiholiday

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noun

A day having certain aspects of a holiday.

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Meanings

nounsemiholiday (plural semiholidays)

plural semiholidays

  1. A day having certain aspects of a holiday.

    […] within a forty-year period, the pickers changed from Indian families to local Euro-American women and children who were encouraged by the farmers to regard picking as a semiholiday to Mexican migrant families.

    2016, Karen J. Blair, Women in Pacific Northwest History: Revised Edition, page 17

Origin

From semi- + holiday.

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APA

semiholiday. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semiholiday

MLA

“semiholiday.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semiholiday. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “semiholiday,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semiholiday.

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