Meaning

2 senses
  1. A religious festival; its day on the calendar.

    a day specified for religious observance

  2. A regular day of religious observance, a sabbath.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Today is a holy day for us.

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  2. Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.

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  3. The Sabbath is the holy day in Judaism and Christianity.

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Origin

Compare holiday.

Compare holiday.

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Forms

plural: holy days
Singularholy day
Pluralholy days

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
see feast daysee Sabbath and uposatha
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
RelatedholidayA1

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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