summer holiday
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see summer, holiday: a holiday (holy day or comparable) that falls during the summer; especially, one that celebrates summer or, most specifically, the summer solstice.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing"
- "This year's inventorying project was a summer holiday in comparison with how it used to go."
- "Trips to Malta have not always been a summer holiday for Southgate's England - a World Cup qualifier here in 2017 saw them fail to score until the 53rd minute before three late strikes put some undeserved gloss on that 4-0 scoreline."
- "Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals."