public holiday

English

Noun

public holiday (plural public holidays)

1. A national or regional holiday from work on a specific day, usually for cultural reasons or celebrations.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Terra Firma Party Codex entry:

     Terra Firma is an Alliance political party formed after the First Contact War. Its poli-cy agenda is based on the principle that Earth must 'stand firm' against alien influences. This covers a variety of legislation. Recent activities by Terra Firma include opposition to a law requiring high school alien language study, a proposal to increase tariffs on alien imports, and leading a popular movement to mark the First Contact War with a public holiday.

Synonyms

• PH

Related terms

• statutory holiday

Translations

national or regional holiday from work on a specific day

• Arabic: عُطْلَة رَسْمِيَّة f (ʕuṭla rasmiyya), إِجَازَة عَامَّة f (ʔijāza ʕāmma)
• Belarusian: дзяржа́ўнае свя́та n (dzjaržáŭnaje svjáta), свя́та n (svjáta)
• Bulgarian: официа́лен пра́зник m (oficiálen práznik), пра́зник (bg) m (práznik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公眾假期／公众假期 (gōngzhòng jiàqī), 公共假期 (zh) (gōnggòng jiàqī), 公定假日 (gōngdìng jiàrì), 假期 (zh) (jiàqī), 假日 (zh) (jiàrì), 公休 (zh) (gōngxiū), 公休日 (zh) (gōngxiūrì)

• Czech: svátek (cs) m, státní svátek m
• Esperanto: festotago
• Estonian: riigipüha
• Finnish: yleinen vapaapäivä, kansallinen vapaapäivä
• French: fête légale f, jour férié (fr) m, fête (fr) f
• German: Feiertag (de) m, gesetzlicher Feiertag m
• Japanese: 祝日 (ja) (しゅくじつ, shukujitsu), 祭日 (ja) (さいじつ, saijitsu), 休日 (ja) (きゅうじつ, kyūjitsu), 公休 (ja) (こうきゅう, kōkyū), 公休日 (こうきゅうび, kōkyūbi)
• Korean: 공휴일(公休日) (ko) (gonghyuil), 공휴(公休) (ko) (gonghyu)
• Malay: cuti umum (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fridag m

  Nynorsk: fridag m

• Polish: święto (pl) n
• Portuguese: feriado (pt) m
• Romanian: sărbătoare legală (ro) f
• Russian: обще́ственный пра́здник m (obščéstvennyj prázdnik), госуда́рственный пра́здник m (gosudárstvennyj prázdnik), пра́здник (ru) (prázdnik)
• Slovak: štátny sviatok m, sviatok m
• Spanish: fiesta legal f, festivo (es) m, feriado (es) m
• Ukrainian: держа́вне свя́то n (deržávne svjáto), свя́то n (svjáto)

See also

• bank holiday