Need another word that means the same as “vacation”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “vacation” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Vacation” are: holiday, trip, tour, break, stopover, evacuation, abandonment, desertion, relinquishment, leaving, take a break, travel, stay, visit, stop over
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “vacation” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| abandonment | The voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away. She had a feeling of utter abandonment and loneliness. |
| break | Breaking of hard tissue such as bone. Then there was a break in her voice. |
| desertion | The action of deserting a person, cause, or organization. Such a desertion of the cause of freedom was unthinkable. |
| evacuation | The act of removing the contents of something. Those who required an evacuation of retained products. |
| holiday | Characteristic of a holiday festive. I spent my summer holidays on a farm. |
| leaving | The act of departing. |
| relinquishment | The act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. |
| stopover | A break in a journey. A brief stopover at Shannon Airport. |
| tour | A journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited. Ireland s eight match tour of New Zealand. |
| trip | A light or nimble tread. He recited the whole poem without a single trip. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “vacation” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| holiday | Spend a holiday in a specified place. He is holidaying in Italy. |
| stay | Stay behind. There are some cases the Crown feels so serious they don t want to stay the charges. |
| stop over | Put an end to a state or an activity. |
| take a break | Develop a habit. |
| tour | Make a tour of an area. This production will be toured to outlying villages. |
| travel | Travel upon or across. He travelled for a wholesale wine firm and had samples of numerous South Tyrolean wines in his case. |
| visit | Pay a brief visit. There was nothing to do but visit with one another. |
| abolition | The act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery. The abolition of the death penalty. |
| adjournment | The termination of a meeting. She sought an adjournment of the trial. |
| annulment | (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc. The applicant sought the annulment of the decision. |
| beach | Run or haul up a boat or ship on to a beach. He managed to beach a fine trout. |
| bivouac | Stay in a bivouac. We bivouacked on the north side of the town. |
| bonfire | A large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration. The smell of burning leaves from a garden bonfire. |
| break | Breaking of hard tissue such as bone. She put out an arm to break her fall. |
| camp | A group of people living together in a camp. City kids get to see the country at a summer camp. |
| camping | The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp. When they were little we went camping in California. |
| campsite | A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent. |
| cancellation | The annulling of a legal document. The project was threatened with cancellation by the government. |
| encamp | Settle in or establish a camp. We encamped for the night by a river. |
| encampment | The action of setting up a camp. A Bedouin encampment. |
| hammock | A small natural hill. |
| holiday | Characteristic of a holiday festive. No mail is delivered on federal holidays. |
| hovel | Small crude shelter used as a dwelling. People were living in rat infested hovels. |
| knapsack | A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder. |
| loll | Be lazy or idle. His tongue lolled. |
| pause | Cease an action temporarily. We pause for station identification. |
| picnic | Have or take part in a picnic. We packed up a picnic and went to the reservoir. |
| recess | Make a recess in. Parliament was in recess. |
| relax | Cause to feel relaxed. Our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group. |
| resort | A hotel located in a resort area. An appeal to his uncle was his last resort. |
| rest | An instance or period of resting. He threw away the rest. |
| retired | (of a person) reserved; uncommunicative. A very retired individual. |
| revocation | The state of being cancelled or annulled. 16 of parole revocations were due to drug related violations. |
| shanty | A small, crudely built shack. |
| sunbathe | Expose one’s body to the sun. I didn t do much apart from swim sunbathe and sleep. |
| tent | A web that resembles a tent or carpet. Tim tented his fingers. |
| travel | Change location move travel or proceed also metaphorically. Two proximity switches detect when the valve has reached the end of its travel. |
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