vacationed
USvay-KAY-shuhnd/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃənd/UKvuh-KAY-shuhnd/vəˈkeɪ.ʃ(ə)nd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of vacation.
The family vacationed on the coast every July when the children were young.
She had vacationed there once before, years earlier.
Note
A regular -ed form that does two jobs: the plain past (they vacationed on the coast) and the participle after have (she had vacationed there before). The verb is intransitive, so it takes no object, and the place you went follows a preposition: vacationed in, at, on. For the same reason it has no passive, and a place is never "vacationed." The verb is the noun put to work: spending a vacation rather than having one.
vacationed is a form of vacation
vacation, verb: To spend or take a period of leisure away from work or duty. Full entry
- Forms
- vacationvacations he/she/itvacationing -ing formvacationed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- vacation → vacationed: add -ed
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with vacationed, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.