easter
see also: Easter
Pronunciation
Easter
Pronunciation Noun
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see also: Easter
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈiː.stə/
easter
- (now, regional) Eastern. [from 8th c.]
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 57:
- In the mean while, as our apartment was a corner one, and looked both east and north, I ran to the easter casement to look after Drummond.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 57:
Easter
Pronunciation Noun
easter
- (Christianity) A Christian feast commemorating the resurrection of Christ; the first Sunday (and Monday) following the full moon that occurs on or next after the vernal equinox, ranging from March 22 to April 25.
- We spent each of the past five Easters together as a family.
- Eastertide
- (obsolete) The Jewish Passover.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark XIV:
- After two dayes folowed ester, and the dayes of swete breed.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark XIV:
- (paganism) A festival held in honour of the goddess Eostre or Ostara, celebrated at the spring equinox or within the month of April, and also called Ostara or Eostre.
- Easter term.
- French: Pâques
- German: Ostern, Osterfest
- Italian: Pasqua
- Portuguese: Páscoa
- Russian: Па́сха
- Spanish: pascua, Pascua
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