vacation
IPA: veɪkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- Freedom from some business or activity.
- (obsolete) Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
- A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
- (Canada, US) A holiday; a stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure.
- An extended period of time away from work or school.
- The act of vacating something; moving out.
- (US, law) The act of making legally void.
- (video games, slang) A user's enforced absence from the Steam video-gaming service and its community, as a result of being banned for cheating.
verb
- (intransitive) To spend or take a vacation.
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Examples of "vacation" in Sentences
- Hope the vacation is enjoyable.
- Children are on the vacation at the seaside.
- The people went to the resort for a vacation.
- Lucile Ball spent the vacation at the Carefree Resort.
- Lucile Ball used to spend her vacation at the Carefree Resort.
- A section on the history of the vacation would be interesting.
- I have been gone away, crazed - and this is what I call vacation!
- I wish I could go, but my vacation is already taken up by other upcoming trips.
- Maybe that’s because the word vacation comes from the Latin word, vacans, meaning “to vacate” or “to be empty.”
- A great outdoor enthusiast, John believes that the word vacation is synonymous with white-water rafting and long, arduous hikes in the woods.
- Every time any family has a visiting student into his home, at holiday-time, at Christmas, or in vacation, that is yet one more thread to hold the Commonwealth to gether.
- Get could pictures and see the sights while your there, I hope you enjoyed your vacation is the not sure a arrogant pompous idiot will find humble Ohio a place to return to. whaley41
- He starts at the very beginning, with the story I already heard from Aunt Georgia, from when he was sent from L.A. by Deb on what she called a vacation but turned out to be a short stay with Grandpa Ivan in Boise and then a longer stay with Aunt Georgia and Uncle Charles.
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