Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun legal_holiday
1 sense of legal holiday
Sense 1
legal holiday, national holiday, public holiday -- (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)
=> holiday -- (a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover")