holidayed
USHOL-uh-dayd/ˈhɑləˌdeɪd/UKHOL-i-dayd/ˈhɒlɪdeɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of holiday. Chiefly British.
The family holidayed in the south of France that summer.
She has holidayed at the same lakeside cabin every year since childhood.
Note
A regular past form of a verb that belongs to British English, where to holiday means to take time off or to travel for pleasure. The final y stays before -ed, just as in played and stayed. Because the verb is intransitive, it takes no object and has no passive. People holidayed by the sea or at a cabin, linked to the place by a preposition, and the perfect is built with have.
holidayed is a form of holiday
holiday, verb: To spend a holiday, usually by going away somewhere for rest or pleasure. Full entry
- Forms
- holidayholidays he/she/itholidaying -ing formholidayed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- holiday → holidayed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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