Pentecost /penˈti-kost/

1. A Jewish festival held on the fiftieth day after the Passover (also called the Feast of Weeks, and Shabuoth or Shavuot)
2. The Christian festival of Whitsuntide, seven weeks after Easter

Pentecostˈal adjective

1. Of or relating to Pentecost
2. Of or relating to any of several fundamentalist Christian groups placing great emphasis on the spiritual powers of the Holy Spirit

1. A Pentecostalist
2. (in pl) offerings formerly made to the parish priest at Whitsuntide

Pentecostˈalist noun

A member of a Pentecostal church

feast /fēst/

1. A rich and abundant meal
2. A regularly occurring religious celebration commemorating a person or event, honouring a deity, etc
3. A pleasurable abundance
4. (something that supplies) rich gratification of the senses (eg a feast for the eyes) or stimulation for the mind

1. To hold a feast
2. To eat abundantly and well (with on)
3. To receive intense delight

1. To provide a feast for
2. To delight, gratify (one's senses; with on)

feastˈer noun

feastˈful adjective (archaic)

Festive, joyful, luxurious

feastˈing noun

feastˈ-day noun

A day on which a religious festival occurs

feastˈ-rite noun

A rite or custom observed at religious feasts

feastˈ-won adjective (Shakespeare)

Won or bribed by feasting

Feast of Dedication

Another name for Hanukkah

Feast of Fools and Feast of Asses

Medieval festivals held between Christmas and Epiphany, in which a mock bishop was enthroned in church, a burlesque mass was said, and an ass driven round in triumph

Feast of Lots

The Jewish festival of Purim

Feast of Tabernacles same as Sukkoth

Feast of Weeks same as Shabuoth

movable feast

1. A religious festival of variable date, such as Easter
2. Anything whose date, form, etc is not fixed by custom

week /wēk/

1. The space of seven days, esp from Sunday to Saturday (inclusive)
2. The working days of the week
3. (in pl) an indefinitely long period

weekˈly adjective

Coming, happening or done once a week

1. Once a week
2. Every week

A publication appearing once a week

weekˈday noun

Any day of the week except Sunday, and now usu also excluding Saturday

weekˈend (or /-endˈ/) noun

The non-working period from Friday evening to Sunday evening (a long weekend usu incorporating Friday or Monday or both, or yet more liberally extended)

intransitive verb

To spend a weekend holiday

weekendˈer noun

weekendˈing noun

weekend warrior noun

1. A member of a reserve force (milit sl)
2. Someone who is only intermittently active in a sport or pastime (facetious)

weekˈnight noun

The evening or night of a weekday

a prophetic week (Bible)

Seven years

a week of Sundays (informal)

1. Seven weeks
2. A long time

a week on Friday, Saturday, etc

The Friday, Saturday, etc after the next one

a week (or two weeks, etc) today

One week (or two weeks, etc) from today

Feast of Weeks

A Jewish festival seven weeks after the Passover (also Shabuoth, Shavuot or Pentecost)

Great Week, Holy Week or Passion Week

The week preceding Easter Sunday

in by the week (obsolete)

Trapped, caught

this day week

A week from today

week about

In alternate periods of seven days

week in, week out

Continuously without a break

• shelviest
• shelving
• shelvings
• shelvy
• Shema
• shemale
• shemales
• Shemite
• shemozzle
• shemozzled
• shemozzles
• shemozzling
• SHEN
• shenanigan
• shenanigans
• shend
• shending
• shends
• sheng cycle
• sheng cycles
• shent
• she-oak
• she-oaks
• She'ol
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