Lammas

Definition: Lammas

Lammas

Noun

1. Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England.

Date "Lammas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Lammas

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Lammas At latter Lammas- i.e. never. (See Never .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Lammas

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In English-speaking countries 1 August is Lammas Day, or loaf-mass day, the festival of the first wheat harvest of the year, on which day it was customary to bring to church a loaf made from the new crop. In many parts of England, tenants were bound to present freshly harvested wheat to their landlords on or before the first day of August. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it is referred to regularly, it is called "the feast of first fruits". The blessing of new fruits was performed annually in both the Eastern and Western Churches on the first, or alternately the sixth, of August. The Sacramentary of Pope Gregory I (d. 604) specifies the sixth.

In mediaeval times the feast was known as the "Gule of August", but the meaning of "gule" is unknown. Ronald Hutton suggests that it may be an Anglicisation of gwyl aust, the Welsh name for August 1 meaning "feast of August", but this is not certain. If so, this points to a pre-Christian origin for Lammas among the Anglo-Saxons and a link to the Gaelic holiday of Lughnasadh.

References

The Stations of the Sun, Ronald Hutton, Oxford 1996

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lammas."

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Synonyms: Lammas

Synonyms: August 1 (n), Lammas Day (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Lammas

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.

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Crosswords: Lammas

English words defined with "Lammas": Lammas Day, Lammastide ♦ Peter pence, Peter's pence. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Lammas": Gules of August ♦ lammas shoot, Lammas-tide. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Lammas" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Finnish (mutton, sheep).

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Modern Usage: Lammas

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Perheen musta lammas (1941)
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Commercial Usage: Lammas

Domain	Title
Books	Devil on Lammas Nite (reference) Faces at the fair : a photographic essay on the "Ould Lammas Fair" at Ballycastle, Co Antrim (reference) Lammas (reference) Lammas Alanna (reference) Lammas day: poems (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Lammas Ladymass - 13th and 14th Century English Chant and Polyphony (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Lammas

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Usage Frequency: Lammas

"Lammas" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lammas" is used about 12 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)	100%	12	101,599

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Expressions: Lammas

Expressions using "Lammas": Lammas Day ♦ lammas shoot. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lammas

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
lammas	59
lammas ritual	9
craft lammas	2
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Modern Translations: Lammas

Language		Translations for "Lammas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Festë E Prodhimit. (various references)

Bulgarian		Празник На Жътвата. (various references)

Czech		První Srpen. (various references)

Danish		sommerskud (lammas shoot), sankthansskud (lammas shoot). (various references)

Dutch		Sint-Janslot (lammas shoot). (various references)

Finnish		toistokasvain (lammas shoot), jälkiverso (lammas shoot). (various references)

French		seconde pousse (lammas shoot), pousse de la Saint-Jean (lammas shoot), pousse d'août (lammas shoot), pousse d'été (lammas shoot). (various references)

German		Johannistrieb (lammas shoot). (various references)

Hungarian		augusztus elseje (lammas-day, wattle day). (various references)

Italian		Primo Agosto. (various references)

Manx		Luanistyn (August). (various references)

Pig Latin		ammaslay.(various references)

Portuguese		crescimento de Verão (lammas shoot), brotaçao de agosto (lammas shoot). (various references)

Russian		Праздник Урожая. (various references)

Scottish		lùnasd, lùnasdal, lùnasdainn. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žetvena svečanost (harvest home). (various references)

Spanish		Lamas (lamas). (various references)

Swedish		johannisskott (lammas shoot). (various references)

Ukranian		Свято Урожаю. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Lammas"

Words rhyming with "Lammas" (pronounced 'Lam"mas'): Christmas, Halmas, Yumas. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Lammas

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-l-m-m-s"
	-1 letter: almas, lamas, malms, mamas.
	-2 letters: aals, alas, alma, alms, amas, lama, lams, malm, mama, slam.
	-3 letters: aal, aas, ala, als, ama, lam, las, mas, sal.
	-4 letters: aa, al, am, as, la, ma, mm.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-l-m-m-s"
	+1 letter: almsman, hammals, mammals, miasmal.
	+2 letters: alarmism, almemars, amalgams, ammonals, maximals.
	+3 letters: alarmisms, amoralism, analemmas, animalism, malamutes, malaromas, mamaligas, melanomas, melismata.
	+4 letters: amoralisms, animalisms, flammables, mammalians, marmalades, maximalist, melodramas, metalmarks, mycoplasma, paramylums, plasmogamy, sarcolemma, submaximal.
	+5 letters: amalgamates, assemblyman, malapropism, mammalogies, mammalogist, manorialism, marshmallow, materialism, maternalism, maximalists, miasmically, mycoplasmal, mycoplasmas, plasmalemma, plasmodesma, sarcolemmal, sarcolemmas, summational.
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