About The Word Pentecost
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Pentecost
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What's The Definition Of Pentecost?
[n] (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments
[n] seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; a quarter day in Scotland Synonyms | Synonyms for Pentecost: Feast of Weeks | Shabuoth | Shavous | Shavuot | Shavuoth | Whitsunday Related Terms | Find terms related to Pentecost: Advent | Allhallowmas | Allhallows | Allhallowtide | Annunciation | Annunciation Day | Ascension Day | Ash Wednesday | Candlemas | Candlemas Day | Carnival | Christmas | Corpus Christi | Day of Atonement | Easter | Easter Monday | Easter Saturday | Easter Sunday | Eastertide | Ember days | Epiphany | Fast of Av | Feast of Tabernacles | Feast of Weeks | Good Friday | Halloween | Hallowmas | Hanukkah | High Holy Days | Holy Thursday | Holy Week | Lady Day | Lammas | Lammas Day | Lammastide | Lent | Lententide | Mardi Gras | Martinmas | Maundy Thursday | Michaelmas | Michaelmas Day | Michaelmastide | New Year | Ninth of Av | Palm Sunday | Pancake Day | Passion Week | Passover | Pesach | Purim | Quadragesima | Quadragesima Sunday | Rosh Hashanah | Septuagesima | Shabuoth | Shrove Tuesday | Simhath Torah | Sukkoth | Trinity Sunday | Twelfth-day | Twelfth-tide | White Sunday | Whitmonday | Whitsun | Whitsunday | Whitsuntide | Whit-Tuesday | Whitweek | Yom Kippur See Also | Jewish holy day | quarter day | Whitsun | Whitsuntide | Whitweek Pentecost In Webster's Dictionary \Pen"te*cost\, n. [L. pentecoste, Gr. ? (sc. ?) the
fiftieth day, Pentecost, fr. ? fiftieth, fr. ? fifty, fr. ?
five. See {Five}, and cf. {Pingster}.]
1. A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because
celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the
second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of
the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the {Feast
of Weeks}. At this festival an offering of the first
fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was
generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law
on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.
2. A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in
commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the
apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; --
called also {Whitsunday}. --Shak.
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