Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
half-holiday \half-holiday\ n. a day on which half of the day is free from work or duty; a holiday of one half of a day.
WordNet
n. a day on which half is free from work or duty
Usage examples of "half-holiday".
It was a Wednesday half-holiday late in March, a spring day glorious in amber light, dazzling white clouds and the intensest blue, casting a powder of wonderful green hither and thither among the trees and rousing all the birds to tumultuous rejoicings, a rousing day, a clamatory insistent day, a veritable herald of summer.
William Dobbin retreated to a remote outhouse in the playground, where he passed a half-holiday in the bitterest sadness and woe.
The boulevard was full of cars flying countryward for the Saturday half-holiday, toward golf and tennis, green fields and babbling girls.
He had the feeling of unexplained excitement with which, on half-holidays at school, he used to start off into the unknown.