Holiday
• 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.
• A religious feast day; a holy day.
Festival
• An occasion for celebration, especially a
day or time of religious significance that
recurs at regular intervals.
• An often regularly recurring program of
cultural performances, exhibitions, or
competitions: a film festival
Holiday
Bank holidays
• A day on which banks are legally closed.
• Chiefly British. A legal holiday when banks
are ordered to remain closed.
Public holiday
• public holidays are holidays that the public get
off work, Christmas, Easter, Independence Day,
etc.
• bank holidays were thought of in the great
depression to close banks temporarily to give
them a chance to catch back up on the money
that everybody was trying to withdraw all at the
same time, which banks couldn't support
Types of holidays
• international - Of,
relating to, or involving
two or more nations:
an international
commission;
international affairs.
• Extending across or
transcending national
boundaries:
international fame.
national
• belonging to a nation as an organized
whole.
• Of or relating to nationality: their
national origin.
local
• Of, relating to, or characteristic of a
particular place: a local custom; the local
slang.
• Of or relating to a city, town, or district
rather than a larger area: state and local
government.
• Not broad or general; not widespread:
local outbreaks of flu.
family
• Of or having to do with a family: family
problems.
• Being suitable for a family: family movies.
political
• Of, relating to, or dealing with the
structure or affairs of government,
politics, or the state.
• Relating to, involving, or characteristic of
politics or
politicians
cultural
• Of or relating to culture
• Relating to the ideas and ways of certain
people.
seasonal
• Of or dependent on a particular season
religious
• Of, concerned with, or teaching religion:
a religious text.
ethnic
• Of, relating to, or characteristic of a
sizable group of people sharing a common
and distinctive racial, national, religious,
linguistic, or cultural heritage.