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vacation

English

Etymology

From Middle English vacation, vacacion, vacacioun, from Anglo-Norman vacacioun, from Old French vacacion, vacation, from Latin vac?ti?.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /v??ke??(?)n/, /ve??ke??(?)n/
  • (US) enPR: v?-k?'sh?n, IPA(key): /ve??ke???n/, /v??ke??(?)n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n, -e??n
  • Hyphenation: va?ca?tion

Noun

vacation (countable and uncountable, plural vacations)

  1. Freedom from some business or activity. [from 14th c.]
  2. (obsolete) Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity. [15th-17th c.]
  3. A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc. [from 15th c.]
  4. (Canada, US) A holiday; a stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure. [from 19th c.]
  5. The act of vacating something; moving out. [from 19th c.]
  6. (US, law) The act of making legally void.

Synonyms

  • (freedom from some activity): holiday (UK)
  • (free time given over to a specific purpose): annulment, revocation
  • (a stretch of leisure time away from work): holiday (UK); see also Thesaurus:vacation
  • (act of vacating something): departure, moveout

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vacation (third-person singular simple present vacations, present participle vacationing, simple past and past participle vacationed)

  1. (intransitive) To spend or take a vacation.
    This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.

Synonyms

  • (Britain) go on holiday
  • go on vacation
  • holiday

Translations

Related terms

  • vacate

Anagrams

  • Octavian

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va.ka.sj??/

Noun

vacation f (plural vacations)

  1. (law) session

Further reading

  • “vacation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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anxiety

English

Etymology

From Latin anxiet?s, from anxius (anxious, solicitous, distressed, troubled), from ang? (to distress, trouble), akin to Ancient Greek ???? (ánkh?, to choke). See anger; angst.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?æ?(?)?za?.?.ti/
  • Rhymes: -a??ti

Noun

anxiety (countable and uncountable, plural anxieties)

  1. An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 268a.
      But the other, because he's been immersed in arguments, gives the appearance of harbouring considerable anxiety and suspicion that he's ignorant of those matters he presents himself to others as an expert on.
  2. An uneasy or distressing desire (for something).
  3. (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.

Synonyms

  • care, solicitude, foreboding, uneasiness, perplexity, disquietude, disquiet, trouble, apprehension, restlessness, distress

Related terms

Derived terms

  • hangxiety

Translations


Further reading

  • anxiety in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • anxiety in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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