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Definition: Holy Thursday |
Holy ThursdayNoun1. The Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Holy Thursday The day of our Lord's ascension. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: Holy ThursdaySynonym: Maundy Thursday (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: Holy Thursday |
| English words defined with "Holy Thursday": Ascension Day. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Holy Thursday": Beating the Bounds ♦ Feasts ♦ Nell's Point. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Argentina | In addition, on a number of "non-work days", Government offices, banks, insurance companies and courts are closed, but closing is optional for business and commerce, such as Holy Thursday (immediately before Easter). (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 |
holy thursday | 8 |
blake holy thursday william | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "Holy Thursday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | nagycsütörtök (maundy thursday), áldozócsütörtök (Ascension Day). (various references) | ||||
Manx | Jerdein Chorp Chreest (Corpus Christi), Jerdein Casherick. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | olyhay ursdaythay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-h-l-o-r-s-t-u-y-y" | |
-4 letters: holydays, sudatory. | |
-5 letters: authors, dourahs, drouths, drouthy, drylots, harlots, harshly, holards, holyday, houdahs, hydrous, layouts, outlays, royalty, shortly, sudoral, torulas. | |
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