half-holiday

1. 1.

   a day on which half is free from work or duty

   Broaderholiday

Questions about half-holiday

What does half-holiday mean?

half-holiday means "a day on which half is free from work or duty".

How many syllables are in half-holiday?

half-holiday has 4 syllables: half--ho-li-day. The stress falls on "ho".

Is half-holiday a common word?

half-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.