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say it: HAH-luh-day
holiday is a noun and verb meaning "leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure". It is pronounced /ˈhɑləˌdeɪ/ — HAH-luh-day. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a day on which work is suspended by law or custom
“no mail is delivered on federal holidays”
“it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for holiday come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.