Holiday vs. Leave — What's the Difference?

A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tradition of cultural or religious significance.

Go away from

An extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in travelling.

Allow or cause to remain

A short period during which the payment of instalments, tax, etc. may be suspended

Cause (someone or something) to be in a particular state or position

Spend a holiday in a specified place

(of a plant) put out new leaves

A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event.

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

A religious feast day; a holy day.

Time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces

Chiefly British A vacation. Often used in the phrase on holiday.

Permission

To pass a holiday or vacation.

To go out of or away from

A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.

To go without taking or removing

A day declared free from work by the state or government.

To omit or exclude

A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.

To have as a result, consequence, or remainder

A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).

To cause or allow to be or remain in a specified state

(finance) A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.

To have remaining after death

A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.

To bequeath

(intransitive) To take a period of time away from work or study.

To give over to another to control or act on

To spend a period of time in recreational travel.

To abandon or forsake

A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.

To remove oneself from association with or participation in

A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.

To give or deposit, as for use or information, upon one's departure or in one's absence

A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.

To cause or permit to be or remain

Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.

(Nonstandard) To allow or permit; let.

Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.

To set out or depart; go

Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure;

To put forth foliage; leaf.

A day on which work is suspended by law or custom;

Permission to do something.

Spend or take a vacation

An act of departing; a farewell

See leave of absence.

To have a consequence or remnant.

(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

To cause, to result in.

(transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

To depart; to separate from.

To let be or do without interference.

(transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.

(transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

(intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

To transfer something.

(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

(transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

(transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

To remain (behind); to stay.

To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

(transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

To produce leaves or foliage.

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

(cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.

(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

Permission.

(dated) Farewell, departure.

To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out.

To raise; to levy.

To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.

To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.

To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.

To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit - with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.

To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.

To cause to be; - followed by an adjective or adverb describing a state or condition; as, the losses due to fire leave me penniless; The cost of defending himself left Bill Clinton with a mountain of lawyers' bills.

To depart; to set out.

To cease; to desist; to leave off.

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; - used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.

The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty;

Permission to do something;

The act of departing politely;

Go away from a place;

Go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness;

Act or be so as to become in a specified state;

Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;

Move out of or depart from;

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain;

Result in;

Remove oneself from an association with or participation in;

Put into the care or protection of someone;

Leave or give by will after one's death;

Have left or have as a remainder;

Be survived by after one's death;

Tell or deposit (information) knowledge;

Leave behind unintentionally;