pentecost
/ˈpɛntəˌkɔst/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English
Meaning
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Synonym of Shavuot (“a Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the omer (“sheaf of barley”) is offered; a ceremony held on that day to commemorate the giving of the Torah (“first five books of the Hebrew scriptures”) to Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinai”).
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A festival which falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter which commemorates the event described in Acts 2 of the Bible when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles during the Jewish festival of Pentecost (proper noun sense 1), conferring on them the miraculous ability to explain the gospel in languages they did not know; also, the Sunday on which the festival is celebrated.
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In full day of Pentecost or Pentecost day: the day on which the event commemorated by the festival (proper noun sense 2) occurred; also, the event itself.
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Synonym of Whitsuntide (“the week beginning on Whitsunday; also, the weekend which includes Whitsunday”).
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The gift of the Holy Spirit to a Christian; also, the occurrence of this.
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A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Novv vvhen I vvas come home againe, & my vvife Anna vvas reſtored vnto me vvith my ſonne Tobias, in the feaſt of Pentecoſte, vvhich is the holy feaſt of the ſeuen vvekes, there vvas a great dinner prepared me, in the vvhich I ſate dovvne to eat."
- "And when the day of Pentecoſt was fully come, they [the Apostles] were all with one accord in one place. And ſuddenly there came a ſound from heauen as of a ruſhing mighty wind, and it filled all the houſe where they were ſitting. And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues, like as of fire, and it ſate vpon each of them. And they were all filled with the holy Ghoſt, and began to ſpeake with other tongues, as the ſpirit gaue them vtterance."
- "The firſt Leſſon for the Morning contains the Lavv of the Jevviſh Pentecoſt or Feaſt of VVeeks, vvhich vvas a Type of ours; for as the Lavv vvas at this time given to the Jevvs from Mount Sinai, ſo alſo the Chriſtians upon this day receiv'd the nevv Evangelical Lavv from Heaven, by the adminiſtration of the Holy Ghoſt."
- "They ate unleavened bread in Passover, and blessed the moon, and counted the days of the Omer till Pentecost saw the synagogue dressed with flowers in celebration of an Asiatic fruit harvest by a European people divorced from agriculture; […]"
- "Because Shavuot is celebrated on the fiftieth day after the advent of Passover, it has been called Pentecost, a Greek word meaning “fiftieth [day] after Passover". The Hebrew date is the sixth of Sivan."
- "1. Capu[let]. […] [G]ood Cozin Capulet, / For you and I are paſt our dauncing dayes: / Hovv long iſt novv ſince laſt your ſelfe and I / VVere in a maske? / 2. Capu. Be'r [By our] lady thirtie yeares. / 1. Capu. VVhat man tis not ſo much, tis not ſo much, / Tis ſince the nuptiall of Lucientio: / Come Pentycoſt as quickly as it vvill, / Some fiue and tvventy yeares, and then vve maske."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Pentecoste, Pentecosten, Pentēcostē, πεντηκοστή, *penkʷēkontstós, *pénkʷe
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɛntəˌkɔst/
- British English: /ˈpɛntɪkɒst/