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whitsunday

/wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English

Syllables
Whit-sun-day
IPA
/wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.

noun

A quarter day falling on 15th May.

name

A local government area in northern Queensland, Australia; in full, Whitsunday Region.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Whitsonday, from whit (“white”) + Sonday (“Sunday”), from Old English hwīt sunnandæg, probably from the white clothes worn by newly baptized Christians as Pentecost was a traditional date of baptism in early medieval England. Doublet of White Sunday.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Whitsonday, hwīt sunnandæg

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/
  • British English: /wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/

Inflected Forms

Whitsundays (plural)

Phrases

Whitsunday Islands White Sunday

Frequently Paired Words

White Sunday Whit Sunday

Synonyms

Whitsun Whit Pentecost Pentecost Sunday

Rhymes With

sunday monday sundae

Questions

How do you pronounce whitsunday?
The recorded pronunciation is /wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/.
What does whitsunday mean?
The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.
Where does whitsunday come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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