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noun
A vacation taken during the summer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, countable, uncountable
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noun
A vacation taken during the summer.
A school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: summer holidays, summer vacation
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An easy and pleasant experience.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake, bagatelle, waltz, breeze, cake and gingerbread, cakewalk, child's play, cinch, doddle, doss, duck soup, easy pickings, gimme, layup, low-hanging fruit, no-brainer, open and shut case, picnic, piece of piss, plain sailing, plane sailing, slam dunk, snap, walkover
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see summer, holiday: a holiday (holy day or comparable) that falls during the summer; especially, one that celebrates summer or, most specifically, the summer solstice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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