summer holiday
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Noun[edit]
summer holiday (countable and uncountable, plural summer holidays)
- (UK, Ireland) A school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year.
- Synonyms: (UK, Ireland) summer holidays, (US, Canada) summer vacation
- Coordinate term: winter holiday
- (Australia, New Zealand) A vacation taken during the summer.
- (figurative) An easy and pleasant experience.
- 2023 June 17, Emma Smith, “Malta 0-4 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Trips to Malta have not always been a summer holiday for Southgate's England - a World Cup qualifier here in 2017 saw them fail to score until the 53rd minute before three late strikes put some undeserved gloss on that 4-0 scoreline.