(n.) An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask.
(n.) The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.
(v. i.) To veer to the east; -- said of the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the 1916 Irish Easter Rising would be exempt.
(2) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(3) The president of People with Disability Australia, Craig Wallace, said he was concerned by the potential change to the DSP and that he was particularly disappointed it was being discussed by the minister on Easter weekend, when most people were on holiday.
(4) The energy secretary, Ed Davey, gave similar advice on Sky News, saying motorists did not need to queue for fuel but should fill up ahead of the Easter getaway.
(5) The first episode of the gothic drama pulled in 6.1 million viewers on Easter Monday but that number dropped to only 4.5 million for the second episode, prompting fears that the audience numbers could decline even further for Wednesday's finale.
(6) FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER From: Cleo Watson Date: 29 March 2016 at 13:36:03 BST To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Urgent call: Doctors Dear Colleagues I hope you have had a restful Easter.
(7) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
(8) It is little wonder therefore that the circumstances around its death immediately prompted Westminster speculation that the announcement had simply been rushed forward from after the Easter recess in order to put some political punch back into the prime minister's tarnished anti-Ukip immigration initiative.
(9) Appeal court judges say they will deliver their ruling before Easter on the latest attempt by the home secretary, Theresa May , to lift the legal block on deporting the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, back to Jordan.
(10) The programme alleges that the Home Office ignored evidence presented by Ellis's solicitor Victor Mischon that she had an accomplice when she shot her lover David Blakely, an upper-class racing driver, outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead, north London, on Easter Sunday 1955.
(11) Before Easter I spent a few days walking in Wales with my husband, I thought about this long and hard and came to the decision that to provide for that stability and certainty, this was the way to do it,” she said.
(12) US stock markets were closed Friday for Easter and Passover.
(13) The union's assistant general secretary Diana Holland said: "We will not be calling Easter strike action as we focus on substantive talks through Acas.
(14) DFS – one of more than 300 free schools now operating as part of the plan to open schools outside of local authority control – has been open for just 16 months but will now have its funding agreement terminated and its pupils sent to other schools as soon as Easter, after it was placed in special measures by Ofsted .
(15) Without the leftist counter-demonstration on Easter Saturday, it is unlikely that the Reclaim Australia protesters would have obtained significant attention.
(16) For example, Ocado sold an easter egg for £7.49 for 10 days in January, then priced it as “on offer” at £5.
(17) I should cocoa: Hotel Chocolat boss aims for more bounce than an Easter bunny Read more Of the £55.5m raised from the share placing, £12m will be used to speed up expansion plans, which include opening new shops and improving its website.
(18) Over on BBC2, a Planet Earth repeat attracted 1.4 million viewers and a 7% share at 6.40pm, with Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece: The Taking of Christ drew 1 million and 4% between 7.40pm and 8.30pm.
(19) Last year Easter, traditionally a time of heavy TV spending by advertisers, came in March.
(20) Marcus Rashford has been selected for the England Under-20 squad to play Canada in Doncaster on Easter Sunday, in a move that suggests Roy Hodgson regards him as only a remote prospect for the senior side’s Euro 2016 campaign in the summer.
Whitsunday
Definition:
(n.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments.
(n.) See the Note under Term, n., 12.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(2) In an open letter to readers of the Whitsunday Times and Whitsunday Coast Guardian, Christensen said: “Politicians don’t often say they got it wrong, but here it is: I got it wrong.” The federal member for Dawson, an electorate which lies adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, said he “didn’t foresee the angst the dumping of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef marine park would cause tourism operators and the residents of the Whitsundays”.
(3) The inquiry has heard that Roberts may have joined Hartcher as a guest on Nabil Gazal's yacht, and in 2007 sailed to Hamilton Island, the luxury resort in Queensland's Whitsundays.
(4) George Christensen , the federal member for Dawson, told Guardian Australia that he was “seeking legal advice” over the ad, which was placed by Tony Fontes in two local newspapers, the Whitsunday Times and Mackay Daily Mercury.
(5) The people who chipped in, like Whitsundays dive operator Tony Fontes, know first hand how dredging and mining on the reef will affect their businesses and jobs.
(6) The Whitsundays: What sort of holiday requires instructions?
(7) Last week, Coalition MP George Christensen took out an advert in two Whitsunday newspapers to admit that he “got it wrong” in his support for dumping within the marine park.
(8) And that was not because of bleaching but Cyclone Debbie further south, which damaged that other hub of reef tourism , the Whitsundays after it escaped the bleaching.
(9) Meanwhile, Fontes, like many others in the Whitsundays, is busy “mopping up my house” as the Easter tourism season sinks into oblivion with visitors staying away in droves in the cyclone’s wake.
(10) I have lived and worked as a dive instructor in the Whitsundays for 30 years,” he told WWF.
(11) Corals south of Cairns, in the Whitsundays and parts of the far northern reef that were badly hit by last year’s mass bleaching event are at fatal risk.
(12) Tony Fontes, a Whitsundays reef tour operator who also signed the open letter to Turnbull, says the industry can only wish it had the influence of the mining lobby when it comes to decisions that affect the reef.
(13) Will Woodward The Whitsundays II: Sea rescue in failing light Tears of terror rolling down my children’s cheeks are the most enduring memory of my worst holiday ever – a sailing trip in the Whitsundays in April 2014 that turned into a sea rescue in fading light.