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public holiday

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public holiday
n
a holiday observed over the whole country
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Noun1.public holiday - authorized by law and limiting work or official businesspublic holiday - authorized by law and limiting work or official business
New Year's, New Year's Day, January 1 - the first day of the year
Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday - observed on the Monday closest to January 15
holiday - a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover"
Presidents' Day - the third Monday in February; commemorates both presidents Lincoln and Washington
Decoration Day, Memorial Day - legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war
Fourth of July, Independence Day, July 4 - a legal holiday in the United States
Labor Day - first Monday in September in the United States and Canada
Columbus Day, Discovery Day, October 12 - a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
Christmas Day, Dec 25, Xmas, Christmas - a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
Boxing Day - first weekday after Christmas
bank holiday - any of several weekdays when banks are closed; a legal holiday in Britain
Commonwealth Day, Empire day, May 24 - British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth
Dominion Day, July 1 - a legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867
14 July, Bastille Day - a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789
Armistice Day, November 11, Veterans Day, Veterans' Day - a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954
Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day - fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag
Victoria Day - a public holiday in Canada on the Monday on or before May 24th
Translations
public holiday ngiorno festivo, festa nazionale

public holiday أجازة عامة, عطلة البنك den pracovního klidu, den pracovního volna helligdag, offentlig fridag Feiertag, staatlicher Feiertag αργία, επίσημη αργία día festivo, día festivo oficial yleinen lomapäivä jour férié bankovni praznik, državni praznik festa nazionale 祝祭日 공휴일 nationale feestdag, officiële feestdag op een werkdag offentlig fridag, offentlig høytidsdag dzień wolny od pracy, święto państwowe feriado bancário, feriado nacional, feriado público официальный нерабочий день, официальный нерабочий день, установленный законом allmän helgdag, helgdag วันหยุดของประเทศ, วันหยุดธนาคาร İngiltere’de bankaların kapalı olduğu tatil günü, resmi tatil günü ngày nghỉ khi các ngân hàng đóng cửa, ngày nghỉ lễ 公共节假日, 银行休假日


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It was a public holiday, and Fledgeby did not recover his spirits or his usual temperature of nose until the afternoon.
To-day is a public holiday, and the people of the town not only do not work themselves but forbid others to do so.
They mistake who assert that the Yankee has few amusements, because he has not so many public holidays, and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amusements of hunting, fishing, and the like have not yet given place to the former.
 
 
 
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