vacation

Meanings

Noun

• Freedom from some business or activity.
• 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.
• A holiday; a stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure.
• The act of vacating something; moving out.
• The act of making legally void.

Verb

• To spend or take a vacation.

Related

Similar words

• holiday
• annulment, revocation
• departure, moveout
• go on holiday
• go on vacation

Origin

• From Middle English vacation, vacacion, vacacioun, from Anglo-Norman vacacioun, from Old French vacacion, vacation, from Latin vacātiō. Equivalent to vacate + -ion.