OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19592

Whitsunday

/wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Pentecostés
The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.
Holonyms: Pentecost (season), Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit
Jesus, ascended into Heav'n again/Bestow'd this won'drous Gift upon good Men/That various Nations, by his Spirit led,/All understood what Galileans said.
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