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whitsunday
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun whitsunday has 1 sense
- whitsunday(n = noun.time) pentecost - seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles; a quarter day in Scotland; Array is a kind of quarter day
is a part of whitsun, whitsuntide, whitweek
CIDE DICTIONARY
whitsunday, n. [White + Sunday.].
- The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments. [1913 Webster]
- See the Note under Term,
n. , 12. [1913 Webster]
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