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 and divides as half--ho-li-day under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.