What's the difference between halloween and samhain?

Halloween


Definition:

  • (n.) The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
  • (2) He added that the Halloween challenge will become an annual event for psychics and others who claim supernatural abilities.
  • (3) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
  • (4) Oh, wait... @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 Miles Bjornstam (@xeyednpainless) Appropriately enough for the day before Halloween, Stephen Drew has come back from the dead.
  • (5) October Everyone loves Halloween, and the PR team spots a perfect opportunity for Ed to mix this fun occasion with traditional politics: he'll do an old-school door-to-door canvas of local neighbourhoods, dressed as Freddie Krueger.
  • (6) Alex Wood, 22, claimed that he was simply reaching out for a friend’s mobile phone during a Halloween party where he was dressed as a pirate [see footnote].
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest At a Halloween party this year with her husband Stephen Belafonte and her three daughters (from left), Madison, Angel and Phoenix.
  • (8) Halloween should be an opportunity for people to show off their creativity, not their side boob.
  • (9) A few weeks ago she turned up at Jonathan Ross ’s fancy dress Halloween party as Scary Spice.
  • (10) Radiographic screening of Halloween candy is not effective.
  • (11) • For details of Fence's forthcoming Halloween Festival (in Glasgow on 31 October) and other dates, including New Year's Eve, see fencerecords.com .
  • (12) The Village Market complex in Gigiri district, which is also home to the US embassy and a United Nations outpost, has cancelled its Halloween family party this weekend.
  • (13) I know Halloween is SO last week, but if you can just hang on a tiny bit longer, we'll get the Strictly results show out of the way and move on.
  • (14) In the first study, 363 Halloween trick-or-treaters were instructed to only take one candy.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Halloween-tinged genre titles The Last Witch Hunter and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension also failed to inspire audiences.
  • (16) Halloween’s ghoulish festivities have turned into a dangerous culture that brands mentally ill people as “psychos or schizos or freaks”, a government minister warns.
  • (17) "Binders full of women," his badly chosen phrase, became the meme of the night and will likely haunt him past Halloween.
  • (18) Toca Boo (£1.99) Toca Boo may have been released for Halloween, but its appeal will last all year round.
  • (19) It claims the top publisher for global Google Play games downloads in November was Chinese firm Tiny Piece – maker of kid-apps like Baby Pet Vet Doctor, Pets Nail Salon and Halloween Spa – ahead of Gameloft, EA, King, Rovio, Disney and others.
  • (20) In the Halloween solar storms in 2003, the crew on the International Space Station was forced to take shelter in a shielded compartment until the radiation risk had passed.

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