summer holiday

noun summer holidays

1. Commonwealth, Ireland, countable, uncountable A vacation taken during the summer.
2. Commonwealth, Ireland, countable, uncountable A school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year.

   Similar: summer holidays, summer vacation

3. countable, figuratively, uncountable An easy and pleasant experience. Near-synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing

   Similar: walk in the park, piece of cake, bagatelle, waltz, walk, breeze, cake and gingerbread, cakewalk, child's play, cinch, doddle, doss

4. countable, uncountable Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see summer, holiday: a holiday (holy day or comparable) that falls during the summer; especially, one that celebrates summer or, most specifically, the summer solstice. Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.