vacation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vacation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vacation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vacation n leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico" Synonym(s): vacation, holiday the act of making something legally void v spend or take a vacation Synonym(s): vacation, holiday
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vacation \Vaca"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. vacatio a being free from a duty, service, etc., fr. vacare. See {Vacate}.] 1. The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation* of an office or a charter. 2. Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure. It was not in his nature, however, at least till years had chastened it, to take any vacation from controversy. --Palfrey. Hence, specifically: (a) (Law) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. [bd]With lawyers in the vacation.[b8] --Shak. (b) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation. (c) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.