adj
Meaning 1
Eastern.
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Usage: dialectal
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adj
Eastern.
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adj
comparative form of east: more east
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name
A surname.
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noun
A Christian feast commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated on the first Sunday (and Monday) following the full moon that occurs on or next after the vernal equinox, ranging in most of Western Christianity (such as Protestantism and Roman Catholicism) from March 22 to April 25, and in Eastern Christianity (such as the Coptic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church) from April 4 to May 8.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Christianity
Synonyms: Easter Day, Easter Sunday
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noun
Eastertide (“the period from Easter to Whitsun”).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Christianity
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noun
Usually preceded by an inflection of make: the act of receiving the Eucharist during Easter.
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Usage: countable, dated, figuratively, specifically, uncountable
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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noun
Ellipsis of Easter term.
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Usage: Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Topics: education, law
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noun
A festival held in honour of the goddess Eostre or Ostara, celebrated at the vernal equinox or within the month of April; Eostre, Ostara.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, paganism, religion
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noun
The Jewish Passover.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
An easterly wind (a wind blowing from the east); especially, a strong one; a storm of such winds.
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Synonyms: east wind, eastwind, easterly, East
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verb
To celebrate Easter.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To spend the Easter season in some place.
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verb
To move toward the east.
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noun
a wind from the east
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Synonyms: east wind, easterly
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Broader terms: wind, air current, current of air
Narrower terms: levanter
noun
a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox
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Broader terms: movable feast, moveable feast
Narrower terms: Pasch, Pascha
History
From Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.
The noun is derived from Middle English Ester, from Old English ēastre, seemingly from Ēastre, a proposed Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn whose festival is thought to have been celebrated around the vernal equinox. Further from Proto-West Germanic *Austrā, from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ, derived from either Proto-Indo-European *h2ews- (“dawn; east”) or, more semantically plausible, from *austrą, *auzrą, a metathesized form of *wazrą (“spring (season)”), *-ǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”). The English word is cognate with German Low German Oostern (“Easter”), Old High German ōstarūn (modern German Ostern) and is possibly a doublet of east. Despite a modern folk etymology, not related to Ishtar. The verb is derived from the noun.
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