RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious holiday mean? 

• RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY has 1 sense:

1. a day specified for religious observance

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A day specified for religious observance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

holy day; religious holiday

Hypernyms ("religious holiday" is a kind of...):

holiday (a day on which work is suspended by law or custom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious holiday"):

fast day (a day designated for fasting)

Christian holy day (a religious holiday for Christians)

Jewish holy day (a religious holiday for Jews)

Dormition; Feast of Dormition (celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church and is also celebrated on August 15th)

Holonyms ("religious holiday" is a part of...):

Christian year; church year (the year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons)