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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-273/
- Published: 2020-10-25T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-25T08:53:05.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

The word for today is…

holiday (noun) – 1\. A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event.

1. A religious feast day; a holy day.
2. (Chiefly British) A vacation. Often used in the phrase on holiday.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/holiday?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 1500s, earlier haliday (circa 1200), from Old English haligdæg “holy day, consecrated day, religious anniversary; Sabbath,” from halig “holy” + dæg “day”; in 14th century meaning both “religious festival” and “day of exemption from labour and recreation,” but pronunciation and sense diverged 16th century. As an adjective mid-15th century. Happy holidays is from mid-19th century, in British English, with reference to summer vacation from school. As a Christmastime greeting, by 1937, American English, in Camel cigarette ads.

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