Holiday and holidays

Holiday as a singular noun commonly refers to a specific day or event:

• It’s a public holiday on Monday, isn’t it, so I suppose the banks’ll be closed?
• She seems very tired and upset at the moment. She needs a holiday.
• We booked a holiday online yesterday – two weeks in Greece.

We use the plural noun holidays and holiday in similar ways:

• We are all going to Croatia for our holidays this year.
• We are all going to Croatia for our holiday this year.

We often use on with holiday:

• They’re very good friends. We first met them when we were on holiday in Morocco.
• Not: … when we were in holiday … or … when we were at holiday … or … when we were on holidays …