The word holiday comes from the Old English word hāligdæg.

The usage of the word holiday varies in different parts of the English-speaking world.

In Australia, Canada, and the UK, all usage of the word holiday means time away from normal employment or education.

Canadians variously use either the term vacation or the word holiday.

The Halloween holiday is commonly thought to have pagan roots, even though the etymology of the word is Christian.

The Hebrew word shemini means " eighth ," and refers to its position on " the eighth day " of Sukkot, actually a seven-day holiday.

For Pi Day 2010, Google presented a Google Doodle celebrating the holiday, with the word Google laid over images of circles and pi symbols.

Good Friday ( from the senses pious, holy of the word " good ") is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary.

is the Japanese word for a festival or holiday.

Purim ( Hebrew: Pûrîm " lots ", from the word pur, related to Akkadian pūru ) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther ( Megillat Esther ).

The word fair comes from the Latin word feria, meaning a holiday.

In Spain, Canute's feast day has become a tongue-in-cheek " holiday " for the marijuana legalization movement, appropriating the Spanish version of his name, Canuto, which coincidentally is also the word for a marijuana cigarette.

The Danish word for the Christmas holiday is Jul, from the Old Norse jól, the term for " midwinter ", itself cognate with the English word, yule.

The English word " festive " derives from Latin " festivus ", which in turn derives from festus " joyous ; holiday, feast day ".

* festus, a Latin word meaning " festive, festal ", especially dies festus, " holiday "; see Glossary of ancient Roman religion # festus

On September 26, he stood by his word and sat out a game for the first time in 415 games, to honor the most significant holiday on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur.

In parts of Navarre this holiday is called xubilaro or subilaro from subil, the word for a Yule log plus the suffix-zaro.

The * auzi-a compound form of * auzaz, the word found in the Anglo-Saxon goddess name Eastre, the holiday name Easter, and the term East, ultimately cognate with Hausos ( Ushas ), the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess ( Pokorny ( 1959 )).

They performed a dance called the mazeualiztli, which is called that because it is a holiday from work by the word for farmer, macehaulli.

Moreover, the Jewish holiday of Tu B ' Shvat, the " new year of the trees " is referred to in Hebrew as " Rosh HaShanah La ' Ilanot ", where " Ilanot " is the feminine plural Hebrew word for tree.

In Britain, the word chalet was used for basic sleeping accommodation at holiday camps built around the mid-20th century.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

In the Ancient Macedonian language ( pella ) means stone, and some toponyms are derived from this word: ( Pella: capital of Ancient Macedonia ), ( Pellini-Pallini ).

It is also known as Alyeska, the " great land ", an Aleut word derived from the same root.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The name " abjad " is derived from the Arabic word for alphabet.

The name " argon " is derived from the Greek word αργον meaning " lazy " or " the inactive one ", a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

In other languages having the meaning of the Latin word pavor, the derived words differ in meaning, e. g. as in the French anxiété and peur.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

The word " acoustic " is derived from the Greek word ακουστικός ( akoustikos ), meaning " of or for hearing, ready to hear " and that from ἀκουστός ( akoustos ), " heard, audible ", which in turn derives from the verb ἀκούω ( akouo ), " I hear ".

The Latin-derived form of the word is " tecnicus ", from which the English words technique, technology, technical are derived.

The word art is derived from the Latin " ars ", which, although literally defined means, " skill method " or " technique ", holds a connotation of beauty.

Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".

The word was probably derived from the contemporary name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

However, the connection that has derived ambrosia from the Greek prefix a-(" not ") and the word brotos (" mortal "), hence the food or drink of the immortals, has been questioned as coincidental by some modern linguists.

The word originally referred to a solid waxy substance derived from the sperm whale ( now called ambergris ).

For a long time, scholars believed that the alphorn had been derived from the Roman-Etruscan lituus, because of their resemblance in shape, and because of the word liti, meaning Alphorn in the dialect of Obwalden.

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.