has gloss | (noun) a religious holiday for Christians Christian holy day |
lexicalization | eng: Christian holy day |
subclass of | (noun) a day specified for religious observance holy day, religious holiday |
has subclass | (noun) a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due quarter day |
has subclass | (noun) a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion holy day of obligation |
has subclass | (noun) a Christian holy day Saint Agnes's Eve, January 20 |
has subclass | (noun) the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated Easter Sunday, Easter Day |
has subclass | (noun) Sunday before Easter Palm Sunday |
has subclass | (noun) second Sunday before Easter Passion Sunday |
has subclass | (noun) Friday before Easter Good Friday |
has subclass | (noun) the Sunday following Easter Low Sunday |
has subclass | (noun) the Saturday before Easter; the last day of Lent Holy Saturday |
has subclass | (noun) December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem Innocents' Day, Holy Innocents' Day |
has subclass | (noun) the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter) Septuagesima, Septuagesima Sunday |
has subclass | (noun) the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent) Quinquagesima Sunday, Quinquagesima |
has subclass | (noun) the first Sunday in Lent Quadragesima, Quadrigesima Sunday |
has subclass | (noun) eighth Sunday after Easter Trinity Sunday |
has subclass | (noun) one of the three days before Ascension Day; observed by some Christians as days of supplication Rogation Day |
has subclass | (noun) the Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper Maundy Thursday, Holy Thursday |
has subclass | (noun) Thursday after Trinity Sunday; first celebrated in 1246 Corpus Christi |
has subclass | (noun) first celebrated in the 3rd century June 29, Saints Peter and Paul |
has subclass | (noun) twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus Three Kings' Day, Epiphany, Twelfth day, Epiphany of Our Lord, January 6 |
has subclass | (noun) a Christian holy day St Joseph, Saint Joseph, March 19 |
has subclass | (noun) eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5 Twelfth night |
has subclass | (noun) a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory November 2, All Souls' Day |
has subclass | (noun) the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras (`Fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance Ash Wednesday |
has subclass | (noun) a day set aside for fasting and prayer Ember Day |
has subclass | (noun) the first of the four Sundays during Advent Advent Sunday |
has subclass | (noun) the last day before Lent Mardi Gras, pancake day, Shrove Tuesday |
has subclass | (noun) (Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus August 6, Transfiguration, Transfiguration Day |