public holiday

1. 1.

   authorized by law and limiting work or official business

   Synonymslegal holidaynational holiday

   Broaderholiday

   NarrowerNew Year's DayMartin Luther King Jr's BirthdayPresidents' DayMemorial DayIndependence DayLabor DayColumbus DayChristmasBoxing Daybank holiday

Questions about public holiday

What does public holiday mean?

public holiday means "authorized by law and limiting work or official business".

What is another word for public holiday?

Close synonyms include legal holiday, national holiday. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public holiday a common word?

public 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.