what do holiday makers mean?

What does [the phrase] 'holiday makers' mean?

What does holiday makers mean?

Could you give some context, Jinmin?

Thank you, JTT.　I mean what this phrase mean?

Without context it's difficult to say...
Holiday makers could be people planning a party over the holiday season. An alcoholic beverage that makes a holiday a wee bit more festive. Holiday noise makers... like horns or twirly things that make obnoxious sounds at New Years.. But I couldn't tell you for sure, unless I see it in a paragraph or the like.

holiday makers are people going on holiday

holidaymaker is of course less better known as the holy day maker god that grants eternal holidays in return for devout obeisance lettuce spray

In British English, holiday makers are people who go or are on holidays (= vacancy in American English).

Nein, Valter! Brits go on their holidays, (and are holidaymakers* when they do) while Americans go on vacation and are vacationers while they do.

*holidaymaker is one word.

thanks for clearing that up Contrex - I was a little confused at first at how holidays = vacancies (except then I thought maybe if they were on holiday - no one was home).

Yep - we (Americans) say vacation - when we go away on a trip or even stay home and just don't have to go to work- because for us a holiday is a special day on the calendar - like Christmas or Easter or Thanksgiving.
So it is something separate and different from a vacation.

If I saw the word holidaymaker - I'd first associate with the European idea of holiday - but also give it a wider meaning and think it meant someone who was able to make fun wherever they were - they were able to make a normal day feel like a holiday - which is what Ceili was referring to with her drink idea, I think.

In UK English, the word "holidaymaker" has a fairly specific meaning, namely a person who is travelling to, having, or returning from their holidays which are taking place away from home. "Holidaymakers in airport chaos", "Holidaymakers face Euro misery" etc. Your "wider meaning" would very likely earn you some blank looks in the UK.

On a side note, in French, the equivalent word is "vacancier" but I believe that the meaning is narrower: a person is un(e) vacancier once they are en vacances, i.e. have arrived at their holiday destination; people held up at airports etc at the start of their holiday journeys are often referred to as "futurs vacanciers"

Vacation, Walter . . . the word you wanted was vacation . . . vacancy has an entirely different meaning, such as what this claim of yours makes your state of mind appear to be . . .

Americans use the word holidaymaker, it is simply less commonly used than in other, lesser forms of the language (such as is encountered in Angleland), and it is usually only associated with the "holiday season" from Christmas to New Year.

I certainly do need some vacances, but we'll have a multiple holy day shortly (what you Socialists call different as well), but which unfortunately is on a Sunday this year.

However, you can use your vacances to do some vagrancy...