Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Holiday in Virginia and California not about to grab one ", 8 letters:
vacation

Alternative clues for the word vacation

Word definitions for vacation in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vacation \Va*ca"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. vacatio a being free from a duty, service, etc., fr. vacare. See Vacate .] The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter. Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "freedom from obligations, leisure, release" (from some activity or occupation), from Old French vacacion "vacancy, vacant position" (14c.) and directly from Latin vacationem (nominative vacatio ) "leisure, freedom, exemption, a being free from ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Vacation " is the second official single from rapper Young Jeezy 's album, The Recession .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico" [syn: holiday ] the act of making something legally void

Usage examples of vacation.

He and Margaret had closed the diner for a week each summer to take Addle on a family vacation.

The money allegedly was to help pay off debts and to finance an Acapulco vacation for two.

Emaa had tried to force her into living in Niniltna, the womb to which she had fled from the stifling, swarming confines of college, the place waiting for her on long weekends and vacations between time on the job in Anchorage, the one place in the world able to heal the wounds inflicted by five and a half years of casework featuring raped and beaten women and abused children, her home, her center, her sanctuary, her refuge.

Zebedee had given us all a brief vacation during his absence from Capernaum, I decided to take advantage of the time and come out here to see the Baptist for myself.

This dynamic state is a vacation paradise, boasting a population, an average annual rainfall, and historical significance.

Amazon between our trysts, and breaks off the affair when she finds herself pregnant, but reinstitutes it some years later, I forget why, but breaks it off finally when she and Proetus go vacationing in Italy, et cetera, I forget.

What chafed Clyde most was the fact that his vacation had expired today.

Vance, the eminent dopester of crimes and ponies, can now take a luxurious vacation.

Detective Fogle told me you- you would meet me tomorrow once you returned from you- your vacation.

There we will find neither the village of Oetlingen or the Essence of Beauty, but rather the awaited third friend, the student of jurisprudence Karl Hamelt, returning from Wendlingen, where he had spent his vacation.

Eleven years ago, however, Heek had taken an Idaho vacation to permit the police to forget him, and while in Idaho he had associated himself with an outlaw gang dominated by a man named Jan Hile and another man named Hondo Weatherbee.

I summoned my most authoritative voice, the one I always used when all hell broke out in homeroom the morning before Christmas vacation.

Although he pleaded guilty last week in an illegal kickback scheme, he now seeks his pension, sick leave and unused vacation pay.

Old Tyme Opry hotel and found himself face-to-face with a billboard that said, Why Not Take ALL Your Vacations in Pigeon Fudge, Tennessee?

So he asked for a vacation, got it, packed his bag, and went to the Congress of Vienna to tell everybody about phagocytes, and to look for a quiet place in which to work.