| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Noun | 1. A religious festival.[Websters] 2. A secular festival; a holiday.[Websters]. | |
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"Holyday" is a common misspelling or typo for: holy-day. |
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Date "Holyday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A day set apart for commemorating some important event in history; a festival intended to celebrate some event deemed auspicious to the welfare of a nation; particularly an anniversary festival, devoted to religious solemnities; as christmas holydays. | ||
| 2: [Noun] A day of joy and gayety. | |||
| 3: [Noun] A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |||
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| Doug Holyday | Doug Holyday is a city councilor in Toronto, Canada, who represents Ward 3 in Etobicoke Centre. He was the last mayor of the former city of Etobicoke, which was merged into Toronto subsequent to the 1997 municipal elections. He was also a member of the Metropolitan Toronto Council from 1994 to 1997, and previously served as an Etobicoke councilor for nine years. One of Toronto council's staunchest conservatives, he is noted for his fiscal conservatism and tendency to oppose public spending measures. (references) | ||
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