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Definition: Candlemas |
CandlemasNoun1. Feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Candlemas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Note: Candlemas \Can"dle*mas\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression candelm[ae]sse, candel candle m[ae]sse mass.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CandlemasSynonyms: Candlemas Day (n), Feb 2 (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
On this day, some people observe the tradition of lighting a candle in each window (or in each room).
In the United States, Candlemas became known as Groundhog Day.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day; Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide. |
Rite | Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint's DAy, All Souls' Day |
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Crosswords: Candlemas |
| English words defined with "Candlemas": Candlemas Day ♦ Grand days. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Candlemas": King of Misrule, King's Chair. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Candlemas Day in Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The cold promised the day before by the Candlemas sun had come indeed. |
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| "Candlemas" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Candlemas" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (plural) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "Candlemas". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Candelas | Female | Spanish | A Candlemas |
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Expression using "Candlemas": Candlemas Day. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
candlemas | 24 |
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| Language | Translations for "Candlemas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | Vrouedag, Maria-ligmis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عيد تطهير مريم العذراء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Сретение "осподне. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Hromnice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Maria-Lichtmis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Kandelfesto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kynttilänpäivä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Chandeleur, La Chandeleur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lichtmeß. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Gyertyaszentelõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Candelora. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Laa'l Moirrey ny Gainle (Feast of Purification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andlemascay Candelária. (various references) Întâmpinarea Domnului. (various references) Сретение. (various references) verski praznik, svećnica. (various references) Candelaria. (various references) Kyndelsmässa. (various references) Hazreti Meryem Yortusu, Ýki Þubat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "Candlemas" (pronounced 'Can"dle*mas'): Allhallowmas, Christmas, Hallowmas, Halmas, Lammas, Martinmas, Martlemas, Michaelmas, Yumas. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-l-m-n-s" | |
-1 letter: candelas, dalesman, leadsman, manacled, manacles. | |
-2 letters: alcades, anadems, anlaces, calends, canaled, candela, candles, decanal, leadman, maenads, manacle, scalade, scandal. | |
-3 letters: alands, alcade, amends, anadem, anlace, ascend, calesa, calmed, camels, canals, candle, clades, cleans, damans, damsel, dances, decals, desman, elands, ladens, lameds, lanced, lances, lemans, macled, macles, maenad, medals, menads, mensal, mescal, naleds, sandal, scaled, seaman, sendal. | |
-4 letters: acmes, acned, acnes, adman, admen, aland, alane, alans, alecs, almas, almes, amend, amens, anlas, ansae, cades, calms, camas, camel, cames, canal, caned, canes, cased, clade, clads, clams, clans, clean, daces, dales, daman, dames, damns, dance, deals, deans, decal, eland, elans, laced, laces, laden, lades, lamas, lamed, lames, lance, lands, lanes, lased, leads, leans, leman, lends, maced, maces, macle, males, manas, maned, manes, manse, meads, meals, means, medal, melds, menad, mends, mensa, nadas, naled, named, names, nasal, nemas, salad, saned, scald, scale, scena, scend, sedan. | |
-5 letters: aals, aced, aces, acme, acne, alae, alan, alas, alec, ales, alma, alme, alms, amas, amen, anal, anas, ands, anes, ansa, asea, cade, cads, calm, came, cams, cane, cans, casa, case, cels, clad, clam, clan, dace, dale, dals, dame, damn, dams, deal, dean, dels, dens, elan, elds, elms, ends, lace, lacs, lade, lads, lama, lame, lams, land, lane, lase, lead, lean, leas, lend, lens, mace, macs, made, mads, maes, male, mana, mane, mans, mead, meal, mean, meld, mels, mend, mesa, nada, name, nema, sade, sale, same, sand, sane, scad, scam, scan, seal, seam, send, slam, sled, sned. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-l-m-n-s" | |
+2 letters: calamanders, misbalanced. | |
+3 letters: anecdotalism, candelabrums, declamations. | |
+4 letters: anecdotalisms, decalcomanias, scandalmonger, underclassman. | |
+5 letters: dogmaticalness, scandalmongers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6E 64 6C 65 6D 61 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -. -.. .-.. . -- .- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a n d l e m a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006E 0064 006C 0065 006D 0061 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376780707871796785 |
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