holiday season
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur, such as Halloween, American Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
A period in the summer when people go on holiday (vacation).
Example Sentences
- "What are your plans for the holiday season?"
- "Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?"