{
  "id": "holiday.leisure",
  "term": "holiday",
  "sense": "leisure",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a day when work is off and a party often happens",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "days.temporal",
      "work.effort",
      "off.state",
      "party.social",
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "often.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "when work is off on a day, a party often happens",
    "novel_properties": [
      "leisure occasion",
      "scheduled non-work event",
      "recreational social timing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Americans celebrate Independence Day on July 4th with fireworks and no work for federal employees.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Japan's Obon festival in August halts factories as families honor ancestors with dances and visits.",
      "domain": "culture"
    },
    {
      "text": "Google closed its offices globally on December 25, 2023, for Christmas, with servers still logging user activity.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "days.temporal",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a holiday is a kind of day"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "christmas.holiday"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "holiday",
    "holidays"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'happen.event-occurrence' and 'often.temporal' to components to align with definition's reliance on event occurrence and frequency. Definition remains unchanged as it accurately reflects the eme"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-holiday.leisure"
}