What's the difference between whitmonday and whitsunday?
Whitmonday
Definition:
(n.) The day following Whitsunday; -- called also Whitsun Monday.
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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.