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Easter

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Noun

1. easter

a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox

2. east wind, easter, easterly

a wind from the east

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Easter

see synonyms of easter
noun
1. 
the most important festival of the Christian Church, commemorating the Resurrection of Christ: falls on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox
2. Also called: Easter Sunday, Easter Day
the day on which this festival is celebrated
3. 
the period between Good Friday and Easter Monday

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Easter

see synonyms of easter
noun
1. 
an annual Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, held on the first Sunday after the date of the first full moon that occurs on or after March 21
2. 
the Sunday of this festival
: also Easter Sunday

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Easter

see synonyms of easter
n.
1. A Christian feast commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus.
2. The day on which this feast is observed, the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or next after March 21.
3. Eastertide.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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