单词 | summer holiday |
释义 | > as lemmassummer holiday summer holiday n. (a) a fixed period in the summer during which a university, school, etc., is not in session (usually in plural); (b) a holiday taken in the summer.The more usual term for sense (b) in North American usage, and also for sense (a) in U.S. usage, is summer vacation n. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > [noun] > session or term > holidays vacationc1456 school vacation1718 summer holiday1746 school holiday1777 society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > holidays > specific type summer vacation1507 public holiday1736 summer holiday1746 school holiday1777 Cook's tour1856 alcoholiday1877 busman's holiday1893 caravan holiday1899 caravanning holiday1924 staycation1944 spring break1956 farm stay1957 charter1959 ski pack1969 staycation2008 1746 Brit. Mag. June 156 (title of poem) A school-boy's summer holiday. 1785 in T. P. Camelford Narr. & Proofs App. p. lxxix Charles Smith and Sydney Smith were..at the Reverend Mr. Knox's..school, in the town of Tunbridge, where they continued till the summer holidays. 1842 New Monthly Mag. June 151 Just imagine..a plain, downright Englishman..making a summer holiday, and repairing to Cambridge or Oxford, maybe with his whole family. 1882 N.Y. Times 1 July 2/7 (headline) Court of Appeals decisions. Last batch of judgments before the summer holidays. 1887 ‘An Eton Boy’ (title) How I spent my summer holidays in 1876. 1929 E. E. Coe & T. Harbury tr. L. Schalit J. Galsworthy: Surv. iii. 152 On a summer holiday spent together in the Tyrol mountains, Mark..falls in love with Anna. 1969 Guardian 10 Mar. 9/1 The play parks for 5 to 15 year-olds are open later, after school and all day in the summer holidays. 2014 S. Blackhall in Lallans 85 29 Trudy Harrison..met her man in Naples, on a summer holiday. < as lemmas |
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