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Definition: Good Friday |
Good FridayNoun1. Friday before Easter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Good Friday The anniversary of the Crucifixion. "Good" means holy. Probably good = God, as in the phrase "Good-bye" (q.v.). Born on Good Friday. According to ancient superstition, those born on Christmas Day or Good Friday have the power of seeing and commanding spirits. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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In Early Modern English, good had a meaning of "holy". A "good tide" is, for example, Christmas or Shrove Tuesday.
Eastern Orthodox Christians spend all this day in fasting from all food, to the extent that their health permits. It is the one day of the year they are forbidden from celebrating the Divine Liturgy, thereby fasting from the Eucharist as well. Instead, they meet up to three times during the day for prayer: in the forenoon, to pray the Royal Hours appointed for that day; in the afternoon, the Vespers of Holy Friday; and in the evening, the Matins of Holy Saturday.
The people relive the events of the day through public reading of the Psalms, Gospels, and singing the hymns about Christ's death. Visual imagery and symbolism is also often used: in the morning, a large cross is moved to the front or center of the nave (where the congregation gathers), and a two dimensional painted body of Christ or corpus is placed on it. During the afternoon prayers, it is removed from the cross and taken to the altar in the sanctuary, and an epitaphion is brought down to a low table in the nave representing the tomb; it is often decorated with an abundance of flowers. The epitaphion itself represents the body of Jesus wrapped in a burial shroud, and is a roughly full-size cloth icon of the body of Christ. During the evening prayers, the shroud is part of a procession outside the church, and is then returned to the tomb.
During this reliving of Christ's death, the hymns do not forget the coming resurrection. Holding both events in tension, the following troparion (type of hymn) is sung during the afternoon prayers while the shroud is being carried to the tomb:
The term 'Good Friday' has been adopted recently by The Karma Army to denote the day of the week they perform Random Acts of Kindness, but has no connection to the Christian celebration.
See also:
Good Friday Prayer
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| 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 |
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Crosswords: Good Friday |
| English words defined with "Good Friday": Cramp ring, Cross-bun ♦ Improperia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Good Friday": Clapping the Prayer Books, Clerical Vestments, Colours for Church Decoration ♦ Feasts ♦ George, Mark, John ♦ Hot Cross Buns ♦ Lord, Lady. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Good Friday (2002) The Long Good Friday (1980) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Radical changes in sea level following 1964 Alaska Good Friday Earthquake. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Earthquake damage in Alaska following 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Tsunami damage at Kodiak following 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Aerial view of Turnagain Arms, Alaska after 1963 Good Friday Earthquake NOAA photo aircraft often help evaluate disaster damage. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | NOAA photo crews help ground-truth disaster damage at Turnagain Arms Damage caused by 1963 Good Friday Earthquake. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Current buoys with lights, radar reflectors, and F.M. transceivers C&GS surveys followed Good Friday Alaska earthquake of 1964 Current surveys conducted with hydrographic surveys Investigations off of HODGSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Landslide scar at Hanning Bay C&GS surveys followed Good Friday Alaska earthquake of 1964 Earthquake triggered landslide in Hanning Bay Investigations off of HODGSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Good Friday celebration, Franciscan church and monastery, Granada, Nicaragua, C. A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Good Friday in front of old St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, La. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Ireland | In so doing, it sought to prevent both sides from renouncing the 1998 Good Friday Agreement altogether. (references) |
Ireland | The issue of decommissioning has proven to be a stumbling block that, for a time, thwarted effective implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. (references) | |
Ireland | Under the Good Friday Agreement an all-Ireland tourism body, Tourism Ireland, has been created to market the island of Ireland to overseas markets. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Kingdom | In 2000 a nine-member panel of legal professionals, drawn from the civil service and private practice, issued the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice Review, as mandated by the Good Friday Agreement. (references) |
Ireland | In 2000 as stipulated in the Good Friday Agreement, the Government established a human rights commission responsible for providing information and promoting awareness of human rights, commenting on human rights draft legislation referred to it by the Parliament, making recommendations to the Government on the adequacy and effectiveness of laws and practices, and initiating court proceedings or providing assistance to individuals doing so. However, by year's end, the commission had not begun functioning. (references) | |
Minorities | United Kingdom | The majority of citizens in Northern Ireland support the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which aims to create a lasting settlement to the conflict in Northern Ireland and a society based on equality of opportunity and human rights. (references) |
Political Economy | Ireland | All major paramilitary groups, on both sides of the border, have declared permanent cease-fires pursuant to the 1998 Good Friday Peace Agreement. (references) |
Uk | While the Assembly and Executive meet regularly, the work has been interrupted as a result of disputes between the main parties over implementation of the Good Friday Peace Agreement. (references) | |
Ireland | The U.S. government was a strong supporter of the multiparty political negotiations, which, under the aegis of former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, produced the historic Good Friday Agreement, signed on April 10, 1998. (references) | |
Political Rights | United Kingdom | In Northern Ireland the devolved institutions established under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement functioned precariously due to continuing controversies over the participation of Sinn Fein in government as long as the IRA refused to decommission its weapons. (references) |
Travel | Eq. Guinea | Others holidays falling on different dates of the year include Good Friday and Assumption Day. (references) |
Finland | The national holidays in 2002 are: New Year's Day (January 1); Epiphany (January 6); Good Friday (March 29); Easter (March 31 - April 1); May Day (May 1); Ascension Day (May 9); Mid-Summer (June 22); All Saints' Day (November 2); Independence Day (December 6); Christmas (December 25-26). (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 |
good friday | 57 |
the long good friday | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "Good Friday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | Goeie Vrydag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Langfredag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Goede Vrijdag, Goede Vrýdag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Sankta Vendredo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | langifríggjadagur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pitkäperjantai. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Vendredi saint. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | Goedfreed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | karfreitag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεγάλη παρασκευή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagypéntek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Venerdì Santo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Jeheiney Caisht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | langfredag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | Biernasanto, Biernèsantu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodgay idayfray Sexta-feira Santa, sexta-feira da paixão. (various references) vinerea mare. (various references) страстная пятница Good Friday face постное лицо, страстная пятница. (various references) Di-haoine na C isge. (various references) veliki petak. (various references) Viernes Santo. (various references) långfredag. (various references) paskalyadan önceki cuma. (various references) Dydd Gwener y Groglith. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Feria sexta in passione et morte Domini. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-f-g-i-o-o-r-y" | |
-4 letters: dorado, fordid, gadoid, ogdoad. | |
-5 letters: aroid, dairy, diary, dodgy, droid, dryad, faddy, fairy, fiord, foray, fordo, forgo, gaddi, gadid, giddy, goody, goofy, grody, radio, ridgy, yaird. | |
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