(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:10:55

Ho"ly*day` (?), n.

1.

A religious festival.

2.

A secular festival; a holiday.

Holiday is the preferable and prevailing spelling in the second sense. The spelling holy day or holyday in often used in the first sense.

 

© Webster 1913.

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