Semiholiday

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A day having certain aspects of a holiday.

    "[…] within a forty-year period, the pickers changed from Indian families to local Euro-American women and children who were encouraged by the farmers to regard picking as a semiholiday to Mexican migrant families."

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"[…] within a forty-year period, the pickers changed from Indian families to local Euro-American women and children who were encouraged by the farmers to regard picking as a semiholiday to Mexican migrant families."

Etymology

From semi- + holiday.

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