Is in English any difference between holiday and celebration day? (And please correct my mistakes)
In my language we have two different words. One of them means the day off, the day when you don't go for a work. It's national official day, when nobody works. It is not always a celebration day, some of these days are caused by sad events. And the other word means the celebration, some happy event, and it's not always a day, when everybody don't go to work. It can be your birthday, or marriage, or some church event, etc.
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Is In English is there any difference (ALSO: are there any differences) between holiday and celebration day? (And please correct my mistakes)
In my language we have two different words. One of them means the a day off, the day when you don't go for a to work. It's a national, official day off, when nobody works. It is not always a day of celebration day, some of these days are caused [in recognition of \ in memory of] by [sad / tragic] events. And The other word means the celebration of some happy event, and it's not always a day, when where everybody don't doesn't go to work. It can be your birthday, or marriage, or some church event, etc.Just to add to previous comments I (in Canada) don't usually hear the term "celebration day". It is more commonly used as "I celebrate my birthday tomorrow" or "Do you celebrate Christmas?" (meaning anything from do you recognize Christmas as a holiday or do you do anything special for Christmas) also you can "celebrate your favorite sports team winning".
Holidays are, as you stated, generally days off or holidays prescribed by regulation. They are nationally (or locally eg. province, state, etc.) recognized. For example in Canada have statutory holidays (stat. holidays), in the US federal holidays or public holidays. They are all covered by the term "holiday".
It seems your usage of the terms are similar if not the same.
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Thank you for your explanation
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In (American) English, a holiday is technically the day you celebrate something (Christmas Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, etc.). Vacation is the word we use for days we don't work but we're not necessarily celebrating anything (summer vacation). Sometimes, again in American English, if it is a short period of time we may use 'break' (fall break, spring break). I hope this helps!
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