HALF-HOLIDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-holiday mean? 

• HALF-HOLIDAY (noun)
  The noun HALF-HOLIDAY has 1 sense:

1. a day on which half is free from work or duty

  Familiarity information: HALF-HOLIDAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-HOLIDAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A day on which half is free from work or duty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("half-holiday" is a kind of...):

holiday (a day on which work is suspended by law or custom)

 Context examples 

It was, properly, a half-holiday; being Saturday.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Every afternoon brought a return of their riotous games all over the house; and she very early learned to sigh at the approach of Saturday's constant half-holiday.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was my Saturday half-holiday, and we spent it, as we often did, out upon the Downs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But destiny, in the shape of the Rev. Mr. Nasmyth, came between me and Miss Temple: I saw her in her travelling dress step into a post-chaise, shortly after the marriage ceremony; I watched the chaise mount the hill and disappear beyond its brow; and then retired to my own room, and there spent in solitude the greatest part of the half-holiday granted in honour of the occasion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)