day off

English

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Noun

day off (plural days off)

1. A day of vacation; a day when one does not go to work, school, etc.

   After the accident, he took a day off.

   Tuesday is my day off.

   • 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:

     In addition to the extra labour at Christmas, because services kept running on Christmas Day many of the staff did not get the day off. […] Moreover, after Christmas Day he got a few days off and had "...a real old jolly time, as only we men of the iron road know how".

Synonyms

• (day of vacation): break, recess, vacation; see also Thesaurus:vacation

Translations

a day of vacation etc.

• Arabic: يَوْم عُطْلَة m (yawm ʕuṭla)
• Belarusian: выхадны́ m (vyxadný), выхадны́ дзень m (vyxadný dzjenʹ)
• Bulgarian: свобо́ден де́н m (svobóden dén)
• Catalan: dia lliure m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 休息日 (zh) (xiūxirì), 假日 (zh) (jiàrì)

• Czech: volný den m
• Danish: fridag (da) c
• Dutch: vrije dag (nl) m
• Esperanto: ferio (eo)
• Estonian: vaba päev
• Finnish: vapaapäivä (fi)
• French: jour de congé (fr) m
• German: Ruhetag (de) m
• Greek: ρέπο n (répo)
• Hindi: छुट्टी का दिन m (chuṭṭī kā din)
• Hungarian: szabadnap (hu)
• Irish: lá saor m
• Italian: giorno libero m
• Japanese: 休み (ja) (やすみ, yasumi), 休日 (ja) (きゅうじつ, kyūjitsu)
• Korean: 휴일(休日) (ko) (hyuil)
• Manx: laa jeh m, laa seyr m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fridag m

  Nynorsk: fridag m

• Persian: روز تعطیل (ruz-e ta'til)
• Polish: wolny dzień m
• Portuguese: dia de férias m
• Russian: выходно́й (ru) m (vyxodnój), выходно́й день m (vyxodnój denʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: latha dheth m
• Slovene: praznik (sl) m, prosto
• Spanish: día de libranza m, día de asueto m, dia libre m
• Swedish: vilodag (sv) c, semesterdag (sv) c
• Thai: วันหยุด (th) (wan-yùt)
• Ukrainian: вихідни́й день m (vyxidnýj denʹ), вихідни́й m (vyxidnýj)
• Vietnamese: ngày nghỉ
• Welsh: diwrnod i ffwrdd m, diwrnod bant m

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