Words that rhyme with holliday

n 1: time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" [syn: day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day] 2: some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual" 3: a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance; "Mother's Day" 4: the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime" [syn: day, daytime, daylight] [ant: dark, night, nighttime] 5: the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working); "my day began early this morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she called it a day and went to bed" 6: an era of existence or influence; "in the day of the dinosaurs"; "in the days of the Roman Empire"; "in the days of sailing ships"; "he was a successful pianist in his day" 7: the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day on Jupiter?" 8: the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day [syn: sidereal day, day] 9: a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day" 10: United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935) [syn: Day, Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr.]

n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]

n 1: 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: vacation, holiday] 2: a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover" v 1: spend or take a vacation [syn: vacation, holiday]

n 1: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment]

n 1: any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?" 2: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness] [ant: health, wellness]

n 1: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase] 2: the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes [syn: melody, tonal pattern]

n 1: the act of singing psalms or hymns [syn: psalmody, hymnody]

n 1: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm] 2: drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity [ant: comedy]

n 1: a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating 2: a comedy with serious elements or overtones [syn: seriocomedy, tragicomedy]

adj 1: found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday]

adv 1: on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful" 2: in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!" n 1: the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers" 2: the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"

n 1: the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867) [syn: Faraday, Michael Faraday]

n 1: white grape grown especially in the valley the Loire in France 2: dry white wine from the Loire valley in France

n 1: the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians [syn: Saturday, Sabbatum, Sat]

n 1: educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894) [syn: Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody]

n 1: 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963) [syn: Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, JFK, President Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy] 2: a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City [syn: Kennedy, Kennedy Interrnational, Kennedy International Airport]

n 1: a city of eastern New York on the Mohawk river; it prospered after the opening of the Erie Canal

n 1: a region of north central Italy bordering Switzerland [syn: Lombardy, Lombardia]

n 1: the status of being born to parents who were not married [syn: bastardy, illegitimacy, bar sinister]