holiday season

[ hol-i-dey see-zuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a period of days or weeks in which two or more annual observances occur, especially in the United States, where it most often refers to the approximately 5–6 weeks from Thanksgiving in November to New Year’s Day in January:
The kids will be singing Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa songs for the holiday season.

First recorded in 1840–45

While traveling this holiday season, a relative and I were pulled over by a police officer.

Judy, as depressing as she sounds in this song, just wants your holiday season to be happy.

In past years they have declared a ceasefire right before Christmas, but have resumed attacks once the holiday season is over.

With wearables on the rise, everyone from dad to grandma has become number obsessed this holiday season.

Fire-fighting, hunger-striking, snow-shoveling U.S. Senator Cory Booker is up to something new this holiday season: veganism.

Our publishers have generally confined their issues to works especially intended for the holiday season.

Girlhood is not all a holiday season; it is more a working time, a study hour, an apprenticeship.

Owing to the exigencies of the holiday season none of her guardians came to see her before the dinner party itself.

The next day and the next it is mild, resting—the weather seems to be—at this peaceful holiday season.

The binding is very handsome, and the book bids fair to prove one of the notable attractions of this year's holiday season.

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