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Definition: Easter |
EasterNoun1. A Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. 2. A wind from the east. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Easter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Easter originally a Saxon word (Eostre), denoting a goddess of the Saxons, in honour of whom sacrifices were offered about the time of the Passover. Hence the name came to be given to the festival of the Resurrection of Christ, which occured at the time of the Passover. In the early English versions this word was frequently used as the translation of the Greek pascha (the Passover). When the Authorized Version (1611) was formed, the word "passover" was used in all passages in which this word pascha occurred, except in Act 12:4. In the Revised Version the proper word, "passover," is always used. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Easter is a Christian holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion on Good Friday and marking the end of the Lent fast. Easter is the holiest day in the Christian calendar, followed by Christmas and is recognized as a legal holiday in most countries with a significant Christian tradition, with the notable exception of the United States where Easter is only celebrated on Easter Sunday (and not also on Easter Monday).
The timing of Easter depends on the Jewish Pesach, in English Passover, (see 1 below), which commemorates the sparing of the Hebrew first-born, as recounted in Exodus, since it is during this holiday that Jesus is believed to have been resurrected.
The Date of Easter
Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts, in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar (which follows the motion of the Sun and the seasons). Instead, they are based on a lunar calendar like that used by the Jews. At the First Council of Nicaea in 325 it was decided that Easter would be celebrated on the Sunday after the 14th day of the first lunar month of spring (in theory, the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox). Eventually, all churches accepted the Alexandrian method of computing Easter, which set the northern hemisphere vernal equinox at 21 March (the actual equinox may fall one or two days earlier or later), and the date of the full moon was to be determined by using the Metonic cycle. A problem here is the difference between the western churches and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. The former now use the Gregorian calendar to calculate the date of Easter, while the latter still use the original Julian calendar. The World Council of Churches proposed a reform of the method of determining the date of Easter at a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997. This reform would have eliminated the difference in the date between the Eastern and Western churches. The reform was due to be implemented starting in 2001, but it failed. See Reform of the date of Easter.
Computing the date of Easter, known as computus, is somewhat complicated. The Wiki page explains the traditional tabular methods, but also has algorithms such as the one developed by the famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
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Western Christianity
In Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of the forty-six days of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday. Lent really comprises 40 days since the 6 Sundays during this period are excluded from the Lenten fast, and are days that set apart to commemorate Easter Sunday.
The days before Easter also are special in the Christian tradition: the Sunday before is Palm Sunday, and the last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday). Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemmorate Jesus's entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday are sometimes referred to as the Triduum (Latin for "Three Days"). In some countries Easter lasts two days, Sunday and Monday, called first and second Easter day, or "Easter Monday".
Pentecost is seven weeks after Easter.
Eastern Christianity
In Eastern Christianity, preparations begin with Great Lent. Following the fifth Sunday of Great Lent is Palm Week, which ends with Lazarus Saturday. Lazarus Saturday officially brings Great Lent to a close, although the fast continues for the following week. After Lazarus Saturday comes Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and finally Easter itself, or Pascha, and the fast is broken immediately after the Divine Liturgy. Easter is immediately followed by Bright Week, during which there is no fasting, even on Wednesday and Friday.
Other Celebrations of Easter
As with other Christian dates, Easter is also commercially important, with big sales of confectionery such as chocolate Easter eggs, marshmallow bunnies, Peeps, jelly beans, and greeting cards.
In the United States, the Easter holiday has been secularized, such that the main holiday event for many Americans is the coloring of Easter eggs, followed on Easter Sunday by an Easter egg hunt, in which young children gather the eggs that have been hidden in their homes or yards. According to the children's stories, eggs and other treats are delivered by the Easter Bunny in the form of an Easter basket which children find waiting for them when they wake up on Easter Sunday. The Easter Bunny's motives for doing this are seldom clarified.
Names
Some Germanic languages may have named the holiday after the goddess Eostre, although there is no direct evidence of this. It is equally as likely that the holiday was named after "Eostremonat", which was the spring month it usually occurred in. After all, nobody would presumed that "Good Friday" (which precedes Easter) is named after the Norse goddess Freyja merely because the day "Friday" is named for her.
However, in most Christian-dominated nations, namely the European, the names of Easter are from Hebrew pésah ("Passover"):
- English Easter
- German Ostern
- Greek pasxa
- Latin pascha (or Festa Paschalia)
- French Pâques
- Italian Pasqua
- Lower Rhine German Paisken
- Spanish Pascua
- Scottish Pask
- Gaeilge Caisc
- Dutch Pasen
- Danish Paaske
- Swedish Pask
When is Easter?
See also Computus.
West (Roman Catholic and Protestant)
East (Orthodox)
- 2000 April 23
- 2001 April 15
- 2002 March 31
- 2003 April 20
- 2004 April 11
- 2005 March 27
- 2006 April 16
- 2007 April 7
- 2008 March 24
- 2009 April 12
- 2010 April 4
- 2011 April 24
- 2000 April 30
- 2001 April 15
- 2002 May 5
- 2003 April 27
- 2004 April 11
- 2005 May 1
- 2006 April 23
- 2007 April 8
- 2008 April 27
- 2009 April 19
- 2010 April 4
- 2011 April 24
External links
- Article on Easter in the catholic Encyclopedia
- Frequency of the Date of Easter 1875 to 2124
- Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Easter."
Synonyms: EasterSynonyms: east wind (n), easterly (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam; wayz-goos, bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras,mi-careme, feria, fiesta. |
Giving | Alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish; fee; (recompense); consideration. |
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 |
Temple | Chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino; apse, belfry; chapter house; presbytery; anxious-bench, anxious-seat; diaconicum, jube; mourner's bench, mourner's seat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I'm finally going to see Easter Island (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) There is an Easter Bunny (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) 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) Happy Easter, Vern, I like to eat the eyes first (The Ernest Film Festival; writing credit: Georg Schiemann) Did the Cusamano kids ever find $50,000 in krugerrandts and a .45 automatic while they were hunting for Easter eggs (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) | |
Lyrics | He's got a daughter he calls Easter (Everyday is a Winding Road; performing artist: Sheryl Crow) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Charlie Brown It's the Easter Beagle (1974) Easter Morning Raga (1966) Bosko's Easter Eggs (1937) An Easter Lily (1914) The Easter Bonnet (1912) | |
Song Titles | Easter Island Head (performing artist: Throat Culture) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Comet P/Halley as taken March 8, 1986 by W. Liller, Easter Island, part of the International Halley Watch (IHW) Large Scale Phenomena Network. Credit: NASA. |  | Precision depth recorder record of small seamount on side of Easter Island Acquired by Scripps Institution of Oceanography Record from ship THOMAS G. WASHINGTON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Statue on coast of Easter Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Easter Island. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |
 | The stone quarry at Easter Island. Credit: Small World. |  | Intermediate wheatgrass seeding in Easter, OR. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Easter Washington University students sift excavated materials from rock shelter at Fishtrap Management Area, WA. Credit: Rich Bailey. |  | Members of the carrier's Ordnance Department pose with decorated 2000-pound bombs, during Korean War operations, 9 March 1951. Messages painted on the bombs are: "Greetings from PhilCee"; "Happy Easter"; and "Listen! To This One it will Kill you". Among the planes parked in the background are F4U-4Bs of Fighter Squadron 113 (VF-113). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Easter Sunday on Fifth Avenue. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Easter lilies. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Easter" by Kemie Guaida Commentary: "Eggs on a purple background." | "Easter Eggs" by Bill Thearle Commentary: "Easter Eggs." |
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Benjamin Franklin | Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Moreover, all trespasses occasioned by the said quarrel, from Easter in the sixteenth year of our reign till the restoration of peace, we have fully remitted to all, both clergy and laymen, and completely forgiven, as far as pertains to us. (reference) |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | She wishes me to make my easter duty |
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Business | Schools are out of session from mid-June to mid-September, and for approximately 10 days during Christmas and 6 days at Easter, greatly affecting travel plans. (references) | |
The newest decor trends for table linen include combinations with matching colors, clear and fresh designs, and soft and natural earth colors with garden (especially for seasonal products such as Easter and Christmas), Far East (letters), ethno (intense colors) motifs. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Qatar | Some services, particularly those on Easter and Christmas, can draw more than 1,300 worshippers. (references) |
Bulgaria | Notwithstanding regulations that prescribe a written reply, the official advised organizers that he would not allow such a film to be shown in his district at Easter time. (references) | |
Economic History | Slovak Rep | Retail chains are open seven days a week from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., except for major holidays, such as Christmas and Easter. (references) |
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) |
Political Economy | Sudan | In April Christian church authorities invited a German evangelist to address a rally in central Khartoum to celebrate Easter Mass and secured appropriate permits for the rally. (references) |
Travel | Mexico | This holds true for the week before and/or after Easter as well. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Tonight, I'm especially pleased to join with the Speaker and the Senate majority leader in urging the Congress to enact this plan by Easter. |
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| "Easter" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 51.84% of the time. "Easter" is used about 1,792 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) | 51.84% | 929 | 7,764 |
| Noun (singular) | 48.16% | 863 | 8,199 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,792 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Easter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Easter | First name Female | 5,000 | 1,447 |
| Easter | Last name | 5,000 | 2,712 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Easter": at easter ♦ down Easter ♦ easter bunny ♦ Easter cactus ♦ Easter card ♦ Easter daisy ♦ easter day ♦ Easter dues ♦ easter egg ♦ Easter egging ♦ easter eve ♦ easter island ♦ Easter lily ♦ Easter lily vine ♦ easter monday ♦ easter rabbit ♦ easter saturday ♦ Easter Sunday ♦ go to easter mass ♦ Honey easter ♦ just after easter ♦ north easter. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Easter": easter-bonnet. | |
Ending with "Easter": nor-easter, north-easter, pre-easter, south-easter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
easter flower | 4,360 | easter mp3 song | 129 |
easter egg | 3,639 | date easter | 90 |
easter | 3,378 | 2004 date easter | 82 |
easter bunny | 1,863 | easter costume | 81 |
easter basket | 1,556 | easter 2003 | 74 |
dvd easter eggs | 1,463 | easter toy | 68 |
easter gift | 1,295 | easter holiday | 67 |
easter decoration | 1,268 | easter clipart | 64 |
easter candy | 1,200 | easter bunny costume | 51 |
easter dress | 1,150 | easter gift basket | 50 |
easter island | 1,109 | animatrix easter eggs | 50 |
chocolate easter | 1,041 | easter eggs window xp | 50 |
easter dinner | 1,039 | 2004 easter when | 48 |
easter lily | 933 | easter eggs movie | 47 |
2004 easter | 727 | calendar easter | 47 |
cartoon easter | 424 | easter eggs old school | 46 |
easter seal | 282 | jeff sheri easter | 45 |
dvd easter egg | 219 | 2004 calendar easter | 44 |
easter hat | 178 | 2004 easter sunday | 44 |
easter sunday | 157 | ben easter | 41 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Easter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Pase, Paasfees. (various references) | |
Albanian | Pashke, Pashkë. (various references) | |
Arabic | عيد الفصح. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Пасхален (Paschal), Пасха, Великденски (Paschal), Великден. (various references) | |
Chinese | 復活節 , 复活节. (various references) | |
Czech | Velikonoce, Velikonoèní. (various references) | |
Danish | påske. (various references) | |
Dutch | Pasen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Pasko. (various references) | |
Faeroese | páskir. (various references) | |
Farsi | عیدپاک . (various references) | |
Finnish | pääsiäinen. (various references) | |
French | Pâques. (various references) | |
Frisian | Peaske. (various references) | |
German | Ostern. (various references) | |
Greek | Πάσχα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | húsvét (easter day, feast of unleavened bread). (various references) | |
Icelandic | páskar. (various references) | |
Indonesian | paskah. (various references) | |
Irish | CÚisc. (various references) | |
Italian | pasqua (Passover, pesach, pesah). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 復活祭 , アンモニア水 (ammonia water, ammonium, aqueous ammonia, eagle, easy, easy care, easy going, easy listening music, easy order, easy payment, EC, ether, etherboard, Ethernet, European Community, loose-fitting pants with an elastic or drawcord waist, routine fly ball, unlock, unlucky, unmoral). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふっかつさい, イースター . (various references) | |
Korean | 부활절. (various references) | |
Manx | Caisht. (various references) | |
Norwegian | Påske. (various references) | |
Papiamen | Pasku Grandi, Pasko Grandi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easteray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Páscoa. (various references) | |
Romanian | Paşti. (various references) | |
Russian | Пасхальный (Paschal), Пасха, пасха пасхальный. (various references) | |
Scottish | Càisg (Passover feast), a' Chàisg. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uskrs, uskršnji (paschal). (various references) | |
Spanish | Pascua (passover). (various references) | |
Sranan | Pasku. (various references) | |
Swahili | Pasaka. (various references) | |
Swedish | påsk (passover). (various references) | |
Turkish | Paskalya (Paschal). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Пасха. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lễ Phục sinh. (various references) | |
Welsh | Pasg (Passover). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Dominica Resurrectionis Domini Nostri, pascha, paschae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 12, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | On kai piasaV eqeto eiV fulakhn paradouV tessarsin tetradioiV stratiwtwn fulassein auton boulomenoV meta to pasca anagagein auton tw law |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quem cum adprehendisset misit in carcerem tradens quattuor quaternionibus militum custodire eum volens post pascha producere eum populo |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he hadde cauyte Petre, he sente hym in to prisoun; and bitook to foure quaternyouns of knyytis, to kepe hym, and wolde aftir pask bringe hym forth to the puple. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And when he had caught him he put him in preson and delyvered him to .iiii. quaternios of soudiers to be kepte entendynge after ester to brynge him forth to the people. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 12, Verse 4 |
| Albanian | Mbasi e arrestoi, e futi në burg dhe ua besoi ruajtjen e tij katër skuadrave, me nga katër ushtarë secila, duke menduar ta nxjerrë para popullit mbas Pashkës. |
| Cebuano | Ug sa iya nang hingdakpan si Pedro, iyang gibanlud siya sa bilanggoan, ug iyang gitugyan aron bantayan siya sa upat ka bantay sa tinagup-at ka mga sundalo, sa tuyo nga inigkaliwas sa Pasko iyang paatubangon siya sa katawhan. |
| Chinese | 希 律 拿 了 彼 得 收 在 監 裡 、 交 付 四 班 兵 丁 看 守 、 每 班 四 個 人 、 意 思 要 在 逾 越 節 後 、 把 他 提 出 來 、 當 著 百 姓 辦 他 ． |
| Croatian | Uhiti ga, baci u tamnicu i dade da ga èuvaju èetiri vojnièke èetverostraže, nakan izvesti ga nakon Pashe pred narod. |
| Danish | Og da han havde grebet ham, satte han ham i Fængsel og overgav ham til at bevogtes af fire Vagtskifter, hvert på fire Stridsmænd, da han efter Påsken vilde føre ham frem for Folket. |
| Dutch | Denwelken ook gegrepen hebbende, hij in de gevangenis zette, en gaf hem over aan vier wachten, elk van vier krijgsknechten, om hem te bewaren, willende na het paas feest hem voorbrengen voor het volk. |
| Finnish | Ja otettuaan hänet kiinni hän pani hänet vankeuteen ja jätti neljän nelimiehisen sotilasvartioston vartioitavaksi, aikoen pääsiäisen jälkeen asettaa hänet kansan eteen. |
| French | Après l`avoir saisi et jeté en prison, il le mit sous la garde de quatre escouades de quatre soldats chacune, avec l`intention de le faire comparaître devant le peuple après la Pâque. |
| German | Da er ihn nun griff, legte er ihn ins Gefängnis und überantwortete ihn vier Rotten, je von vier Kriegsknechten, ihn zu bewahren, und gedachte, ihn nach Ostern dem Volk vorzustellen. |
| Hungarian | Kit el is fogatván, tömlöczbe veté, átadván négy négyes katonai szakasznak, hogy õrizzék õt; husvét után akarván õt a nép elé vezettetni. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah ditangkap, Petrus dimasukkan ke dalam penjara. Empat regu tentara ditugaskan untuk menjaga Petrus di situ--masing-masing regu terdiri dari empat orang anggota tentara. Sesudah perayaan Paskah selesai, baru Herodes akan mengadili Petrus di hadapan umum. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah sudah ditangkapnya dia, maka dimasukkannya ke dalam penjara, serta diserahkannya kepada enam belas laskar menjagai dia empat-empat orang bergilir-gilir, maksudnya menghadapkan dia kepada kaum itu kemudian daripada Pasah. |
| Maori | A, no ka mau ia, ka maka ki te whare herehere, ka tukua ki nga hoia kotahi tekau ma ono kia tiakina; ko te whakaaro mo muri iho i te kapenga ka whakaputa mai ai i a ia ki te iwi. |
| Norwegian | og da han hadde grepet ham, kastet han ham i fengsel, og overlot til fire vaktskifter av stridsmenn, hvert på fire mann, å passe på ham, da han efter påsken vilde føre ham frem for folket. |
| Portuguese | E, havendo-o prendido, lançou-o na prisão, entregando-o a quatro grupos de quatro soldados cada um para o guardarem, tencionando apresentá-lo ao povo depois da páscoa. |
| Rumanian | Dupq ce l -a prins, wi l -a bqgat kn temniyq, l -a pus supt paza a patru cete de ckte patru ostawi, cu gknd ca dupq Pawte sq -l scoatq knaintea norodului. |
| Russian | Й, ЪБДЕТЦБЧ ЕЗП, РПУБДЙМ Ч ФЕНОЙГХ, Й РТЙЛБЪБМ ЮЕФЩТЕН ЮЕФЧЕТЙГБН ЧПЙОПЧ УФЕТЕЮШ ЕЗП, ОБНЕТЕЧБСУШ РПУМЕ рБУИЙ ЧЩЧЕУФЙ ЕЗП Л ОБТПДХ. |
| Swahili | Baada ya kutiwa nguvuni, Petro alifungwa gerezani, akawekwa chini ya ulinzi wa vikundi vinne vya askari wannewanne. Herode alikusudia kumtoa hadharani baada ya sikukuu ya Pasaka. |
| Swedish | Och sedan han hade gripit honom, satte han honom i fängelse och uppdrog åt fyra vaktavdelningar krigsmän, vardera på fyra man, att bevaka honom; och hans avsikt var att efter påsken ställa honom fram inför folket. |
| Uma | Rahoko' mpu'u-imi Petrus, pai' -i ratarungku'. Opo' ntuda tantara rapahawa' mpodongo-i, butu ntuda, opo' -ra hampo'emaa'. Patuju-na Herodes, bona ane timpaliu-damo posusa' Paskah, rapohurai kara-kara-na Petrus hi mata ntodea pai' -i rahuku' mate. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Easter": easterlies, easterly, eastern, easterner, easterners, easternmost, easters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Easter": cotoneaster, feaster, northeaster, oleaster, southeaster. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Easter": cotoneasters, feasters, northeasterly, northeastern, northeasternmost, northeasters, oleasters, southeasterly, southeastern, southeasternmost, southeasters. (additional references) | |
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"Easter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eastden, easte, eastem, eastex, Eastlea, Eastney, Eastoes, Eastop, eastre, Eautel, Eerste, Eesti, Eiser, Elstar, Eostre, Erster, Estero, Eysner, Geister, Jeepster, Kaster. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Easter" (pronounced ē"ster) |
| 4 | ē" s t er | Feaster, Leister. |
| 3 | -s t er | dumpster, duster, adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, ester, faster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aretes, eaters, reseat, seater, teaser. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: arete, aster, eater, erase, ester, rates, reest, reset, saree, setae, stare, steer, stere, tares, tears, tease, terse, trees. | |
-2 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, star, tare, tars, tear, teas, tees, tree, tsar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: aerates, aeriest, aethers, afreets, austere, beaters, berates, cerates, creates, dearest, derates, earnest, eastern, easters, ecartes, elaters, ergates, estreat, feaster, heaters, nearest, realest, rebates, redates, reheats, relates, remates, repeats, reseats, reslate, restage, restate, retakes, retapes, retaste, retaxes, reteams, retears, roseate, searest, seaters, sedater, seriate, serrate, stealer, steamer, sweater, tearers, teasers, tessera. | |
+2 letters: abetters, absenter, absterge, accretes, acerbest, alertest, alterers, ammeters, amreetas, arbelest, arenites, ariettes, arrested, arrestee, arrester, arsenate, arsenite, arteries, asperate, assenter, asserted, asserter, ateliers, attester, austerer, berettas, bleaters, breasted, breathes, caterers, cateress, centares, cerastes, cheaters, clearest, cremates, debaters, desalter, dewaters, draftees, eagerest, earliest, earnests, earstone, earthset, easterly, eateries, emeritas, emirates, entreats, ersatzes, esterase, estrange, estrayed, estreats, etageres, eternals, exacters, exalters, fastener, feasters, feathers, features, fenestra, ferrates, gamester, grantees, greatens, greatest, halteres, hastener, headrest, heartens, hearties, heathers, hectares, hektares, hetaeras, iterates, keratose, leariest, leathers, masseter, mastered, meerkats, metamers, negaters, oleaster, operates, overeats, parietes, peartest, pederast, petrales, pleaters, predates, preheats, prelates, prepaste, pretapes, pretaste, protease, ratafees, ratteens, readiest, reagents, realters, realties, rearrest, reascent, reassert, rebaters, recheats, recrates, reenacts, refasten, reflates, regrates, relaters, remaster, repasted, replates, resalute, reseated, resinate, reslated, reslates, resonate, restaged, restages, restated, restates, retables, retakers, retasted, retastes, retraces, retreads, retreats, sarcenet, sarsenet, sauterne, seamster, seawater, secateur, separate, serenata, serenate, sergeant, seriated, seriates, serjeant, serrated, serrates, sheather, steadier, stealers, steamers, steamier, stearate, stearine, steerage, stemware, streaked, streaker, streamed, streamer, sweaters, sweatier, taperers, tarweeds, teachers, teamster, teariest, tearless, teaseler, teawares, telerans, temperas, terraces, terranes, terrases, tesserae, theaters, theatres, trainees, trapesed, trapeses, trapezes, traverse, treacles, treaders, treadles, treasure, treaters, treaties, treatise, veterans, wasterie, waterers, weariest, weathers, wetwares, wreathes, yeastier. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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