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The word "Holiday" goes way back hundreds, (or thousands), of years. The word accually means, "Holy day" and meant times of religious celabration. Now it is commonly used as a replacment for times such as Christmas and Thanksgiving in an attempt to eliminate God from the picture. They do not realize that they are accually saying Holy Day as in Godly day. Hope I helped. (8D

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Middle English, from Old English hāligdæg, from hālig holy + dæg day

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