how to pronounce holiday

/ˈhɑːləˌdɛɪ/

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the above transcription of holiday is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

holiday is pronounced in three syllables

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ɑː

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An example use of holiday in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… if I'd been on holiday and kind of being …”

meaning of holiday

Holiday is a day off from work or school.

holiday frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word holiday occurs in english on average 80.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics holiday can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that holiday can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;