summer holiday

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, countable, uncountable)A vacation taken during the summer.

2. A vacation taken during the summer.

   (Commonwealth, Ireland, countable, uncountable)A school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year.

3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)An easy and pleasant experience.

   Near-synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing

   This year's inventorying project was a summer holiday in comparison with how it used to go.

4. (countable, uncountable)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.

   Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.

1. I like summer holidays better than school.

   Літні канікули мені подобаються більше, ніж школа. — deniko

   ruЛетние каникулы мне нравятся больше, чем школа. — Balamax

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2. I'm going away for the summer holiday.

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3. How did you spend your summer holiday?

   ruКак ты провёл летние каникулы? — marafon

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4. I did that during the summer holidays.

   ruЯ занимался этим на летних каникулах. — marafon

   deDas habe ich in den Sommerferien gemacht. — list

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5. What are you going to do during the summer holidays?

   ruЧто ты собираешься делать во время летних каникул? — sharptoothed

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