on holiday

phrase

British

: experiencing a time away from home, school, or business usually in order to relax or travel

She spent two weeks on holiday in Italy.

Examples of on holiday in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Chambers, 41, an American multimillionaire media heir known as Fergie, was arrested at the ​request of US authorities on July 10 while on holiday in Ibiza. — Reuters, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2026

Pick a region, approve a sub-processor, spin up a tenancy because the security team is on holiday. — Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

In 2024, he had been hospitalised for an infection while on holiday in Malaysia ‌and received a temporary pacemaker at a hospital there. — Terje Solsvik, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

The King was previously hospitalized in February, several days after his 89th birthday while on holiday in Tenerife with his wife, Queen Sonja. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for on holiday

• andromache
• bioassay
• cabriolet
• cercariae
• communique
• companionway
• compositae
• decussate
• examinee
• fabaceae
• glyphosate
• gramineae