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Definition: Palm Sunday |
Palm SundayNoun1. Sunday before Easter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Palm Sunday The Sunday next before Easter. So called in memory of Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed the way with palm branches and leaves. (John xii.) Sad Palm Sunday. March 29, 1461, the day of the battle of Towton, the most fatal of all the battles in the domestic war between the White and Red Roses. Above 37,000 Englishmen were slain. "Whose banks received the blood of many thousand men, On `Sad Palm Sunday' slain, that Towton field we call ... The bloodiest field betwixt the White Rose and the Red." Drayton: Polyolbion, xxviii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Palm Sunday |
| English words defined with "Palm Sunday": Tradition Sunday. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Palm Sunday": Feasts, Fig Sunday. (references) |
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Civil Liberties | China | Authorities detained underground Bishop Shi Enxiang on Palm Sunday in Beijing, although they later claimed he had been released. (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) |
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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. |
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palm sunday | 33 |
palm sunday tornado | 4 |
2004 palm sunday | 2 |
christian music palm sunday | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Palm Sunday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | شعنينة أحد الشعانين. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цветница, връбница. (various references) | |
Czech | kvìtná nedìle. (various references) | |
Dutch | Palmzondag. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Palmofesto, Palmodimanĉo. (various references) | |
Finnish | palmusunnuntai. (various references) | |
French | Rameaux, fête des rameaux, dimanche des rameaux. (various references) | |
Frisian | Palmsnein, Palmpeaske. (various references) | |
Greek | κυριακή των βαΰων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | virágvasárnap. (various references) | |
Manx | Doonaght ny Palmyn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | almpay undaysay.(various references) | |
Romanian | florii, duminicã floriilor. (various references) | |
Russian | вербное воскресенье. (various references) | |
Spanish | dominga de Ramos. (various references) | |
Swedish | palmsöndag. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ceroxylon andicola, Ceroxylon andolicum, Corypha umbraculifera, Elaeis guineensis, Hyphaene thebaica, Jubea chilensis, Jubea spectabilis, Neodypsis decaryi, palma, Trachycarpus excelsa. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-l-m-n-p-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: ladanums. | |
-3 letters: daysman, ladanum, lampads, landaus, manuals, napalms, sunlamp, uplands. | |
-4 letters: alands, almuds, alumna, ampuls, asylum, damans, damply, dunams, lampad, lampas, landau, lauans, layman, layups, malady, manual, maunds, maundy, napalm, nyalas, pandas, pausal, plasma, playas, sampan, sandal, suldan, ulamas, ulpans, unlays, upland, yamuns, yulans. | |
-5 letters: adman, aland, alans, almas, almud, alums, amply, ampul, amyls, anlas, asyla, daman, damns, damps, duals, dumas, dumps, dumpy, dunam, lamas, lamps, lands, lauan, lauds, layup, lumps, lumpy, lunas, madly, manas, manly, manus, mauds, mauls, maund, mayan, mayas, mynas, nadas, nasal, nyala, palms, palmy, palsy, panda, pandy, pansy, plans, plasm, playa, plays, plums, plumy, psalm, pumas, punas, sadly, salad, salpa, sandy, sauna, slump, splay, spumy, ulama, ulans, ulnad, ulnas, ulpan, unlay, unsay, yamun, yauds, yauld, yaups, yuans, yulan. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 6D 53 75 6E 64 61 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101100 01101101 00100000 01010011 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l m   S u n d a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 006D 0053 0075 006E 0064 0061 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506778792538780706791 |
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