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Definition: Easter Sunday |
Easter SundayNoun1. The day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Easter SundaySynonym: Easter Day (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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 |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Easter Sunday |
| English words defined with "Easter Sunday": Low Sunday ♦ Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday, Pentecost ♦ Quadragesima Sunday, Quasimodo, Quinquagesima Sunday ♦ Septuagesima, Septuagesima Sunday, Sexagesima ♦ Tradition Sunday, Trinity Sunday ♦ Whitsunday. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Easter Sunday": Cantate Sunday ♦ Feasts ♦ George, Mark, John ♦ Mid-Lent Sunday ♦ Pasch Eggs ♦ Quarto-Decimans. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I was at church Easter Sunday, and the minister was talking about the mystery of faith, and how easy it is to doubt what you can't prove, and how none of us saw the miracle at the Lord's tomb that day, all we had to do was to believe in it hard enough, and it would be true. (Millennium; writing credit: Eric Knight) | |
Movie/TV Titles | St. Patrick's Cathedral and Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday Morning (New York City) (1902) | |
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Indigenous People | Bangladesh | On Easter Sunday, the Forestry Department inaugurated an eco-park on the lands of the predominantly Christian Khasi tribals in Mouluvibazar. (references) |
Travel | Nicaragua | Note: It is customary for both the government and private business to take the entire week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday off. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| 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 |
easter sunday | 157 |
2004 easter sunday | 44 |
date easter sunday | 6 |
2004 date easter sunday | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Easter Sunday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | boží hod velikonoèní. (various references) | |
Finnish | pääsiäispäivä. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easteray undaysay.(various references) | |
Scottish | guileagan (custom of boiling eggs outside on Easter Sunday = latha guileagan). (various references) | |
Spanish | domingo de resurrección. (various references) | |
Swedish | påskdag. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-n-r-s-s-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: andesytes, arsenates, denatures, nauseated, nauseates, sauntered, sauternes, seastrand, sedentary, sederunts, serenatas, transudes, undereats, underseas, undersets. | |
-4 letters: andesyte, anestrus, anureses, arsenate, assented, assenter, asserted, asyndeta, danseurs, danseuse, dasyures, daunters, daystars, dearness, denature, dentures, earnests, estrayed, nauseate, rudeness, sarsenet, saunters, sauterne, sederunt, sensated, serenata, standees, standers, styrenes, tanyards, transude, trueness, underate, undereat, undersea, underset, unerased, unrested, unseared, unseated, unstayed, unsteady, untreads, yearends. | |
-5 letters: aerated, aerates, aneared, ansated, assayed, assayer, assured, asunder, aurated, aureate, austere, danseur, daresay, dasyure, daturas, daunter, daystar, deanery, dearest, densest, denture, derates, deserts, dessert, dryness, dueness, dusters, dynasts, earnest, eastern, easters, endears, endures, ensured, ensures, entases, essayed, essayer, estrays, estuary, natured, natures, nauseas, nearest, nesters, neuters, redates, redness, renests, reseats, reseaus, resedas, resends, resents, restudy, retuned, retunes, russety, sanders, santurs, sateens, saunter, sauteed, searest, seaters, sedater, sedates, senates, senders, sensate, standee, stander, stayers, strands, strayed, styrene, sundaes, sunders, syndets, synurae, tanyard, teasers, tenders, tenured, tenures, tessera, tressed, trussed, tundras, tureens, tuyeres, undress, undrest, uneases, unrated, unready, unrests, unsated, unseats, untread, ureases, yantras, yearend, yearned, yeasted, yestern. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 61 73 74 65 72 53 75 6E 64 61 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01010011 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a s t e r   S u n d a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072 0053 0075 006E 0064 0061 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3967858671842538780706791 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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