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National holiday   /nˈæʃənəl hˈɑlədˌeɪ/   Listen
National holiday

noun
1.
Authorized by law and limiting work or official business.  Synonyms: legal holiday, public holiday.






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"National holiday" Quotes from Famous Books



... honour of the day on which the "Isthmian games" were celebrated, and the Home Secretary, as leader of the Lower House, had said that horse-racing was "a noble and distinguished sport deserving of a national holiday." But the Minister himself, and consequently his secretary, had been compelled to put in an appearance at their office for all that. There was urgent business demanding ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine

... Bismarck was celebrated as a national holiday everywhere in Germany. Not less than 5,250 youths from the universities and academies visited Friedrichsruh on April 1 to bear witness, before the "old man" of Germany, to their love for the emperor and the empire. After ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke



Words linked to "National holiday" :   Christmas Day, May 24, Veterans Day, July 1, Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday, Christmas, Labor Day, bank holiday, Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Day, thanksgiving, January 1, Empire day, New Year's, holiday, Columbus Day, Commonwealth Day, Dominion Day, Bastille Day, Boxing Day, Independence Day, Dec 25, Decoration Day, November 11, 14 July, Thanksgiving Day, October 12, Armistice Day, Discovery Day, Fourth of July, Presidents' Day, July 4, Xmas, Victoria Day, New Year's Day, Veterans' Day



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