"spring break" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spring breaks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} spring break (countable and uncountable, plural spring breaks)
  1. A time of vacation from school that occurs during the spring. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Calendar Translations (vacation during the spring): kevätloma (Finnish), relâche (French), relâche scolaire (French), semaine de relâche [Canada, feminine] (French), 春休み (haruyasumi) (Japanese), dąągo óltaʼ bitaʼ náhoʼaah (Navajo), весенние кани́кулы (vesennije kaníkuly) [plural] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-spring_break-en-noun-iA86VzPO Disambiguation of Calendar: 78 22 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 58 42 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 58 42 Disambiguation of 'vacation during the spring': 57 43
  2. (by extension) The week of vacation from school that occurs during the winter-spring semester, which does not necessarily fall within the official season of spring. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-spring_break-en-noun-jqGQ~Qby Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: March break Derived forms: spring breaker Coordinate_terms: summer vacation, harvest break, back-to-school

Inflected forms

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