English▸ noun
1 North American an extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in traveling. British term holiday:
he took a vacation in the south of France
people come here on vacation
[as modifier] a vacation home.
▪ a fixed holiday period between terms in schools and law courts.
2 the action of leaving something one previously occupied:
his marriage was the reason for the vacation of his fellowship.
▸ verb [no object] North American take a vacation:
I was vacationing in Europe with my family.
– ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French, or from Latin vacatio(n-), from vacare ‘be unoccupied’ (see vacate).