Vacation

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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)

3. 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.

4. The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.

5. The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.