bank holiday

1. 1.

   any of several weekdays when banks are closed; a legal holiday in Britain

   Broaderlegal holiday

Questions about bank holiday

What does bank holiday mean?

bank holiday means "any of several weekdays when banks are closed; a legal holiday in Britain".

Is bank holiday a common word?

bank holiday is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.