vacation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
    holiday.
    • we get two weeks of vacation every summer
    • we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico
  2. noun the act of making something legally void
  3. verb spend or take a vacation
    holiday.

WordNet

Va*ca"tion noun
Etymology
F., fr. L. vacatio a being free from a duty, service, etc., fr. vacare. See Vacate.
Definitions
  1. The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
  2. Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
    It was not in his nature, however, at least till years had chastened it, to take any vacation from controversy. Palfrey.
    Hence, specifically: - (a) (Law) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. "With lawyers in the vacation." Shak. (b) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation. (c) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.

Webster 1913