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vacation

noun/veɪˈkeɪʃən/

leisure time away from work

Students who need money and want to get some experience can work during the long vacation.

breakholidaytime off
word origin — late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vacatio(n-), from vacare ‘be unoccupied’ (see vacate)

Intermediate — Set 5

Set 5 of Intermediate covers 5 words: vacation, voyage, destination, arrival, departure. Each entry below includes its definition, an example sentence, and synonyms — practice them with the interactive cards above.

  1. vacation · noun/veɪˈkeɪʃən/

    leisure time away from work

    Students who need money and want to get some experience can work during the long vacation.

    Synonyms: break, holiday, time off

    Origin: late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vacatio(n-), from vacare ‘be unoccupied’ (see vacate)

  2. voyage · noun/ˈvɔɪ(ɪ)dʒ/

    a long journey, especially one made other than on land

    Victoria did not like long sea voyages since she suffered from seasickness.

    Synonyms: cruise, excursion, sail

    Origin: Middle English (as a noun denoting a journey): from Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum ‘provisions for a journey’ (in late Latin ‘journey’)

  3. destination · noun/ˌdɛstəˈneɪʃən/

    the place where someone or something is going

    My friend and I will be traveling throughout Portugal this summer, and our final destination will be Albufeira.

    Synonyms: place, target, objective

    Origin: late Middle English: from Latin destinatio(n-), from destinare ‘make firm, establish’. The original sense was ‘the action of intending someone or something for a purpose’, later ‘being destined for a place’, hence (from the early 19th century) the place itself

  4. arrival · noun/əˈraɪvəl/

    the act of arriving at a certain place

    The flight was delayed significantly due to the late arrival of the plane.

    Synonyms: landing

    Origin: late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French arrivaille, from Old French arriver (see arrive)

  5. departure · noun/dəˈpɑrtʃər/

    the act of leaving a place to go to another place

    If you request an earlier breakfast because of an early departure, please inform the reception desk.

    Synonyms: going away, leaving

    Origin: late Middle English: from Old French departeure, from the verb departir (see depart)