Easter Sunday
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- noun
- /ˈiːstər ˈsʌndeɪ/
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domingo de Pascua
- The next day, Easter Sunday, April 23rd - the very day the Rising is set to begin - MacNeill publishes a countermanding order in the Sunday Independent newspaper.
Yeah, that Friday, then Saturday, then it's Easter Sunday, Right.
- Yeah, that Friday, then Saturday, then it's Easter Sunday, Right.
- And a follow up question, who do you have for versus on Easter Sunday winning entertainer of the year?
- Actually, this, this the Easter Sunday is the highest, most important day in the Christian calendar.
Examples
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So I said, "Lisa, I'm not going to fix a big dinner on Easter Sunday."
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There was nothing on Good Friday to suggest that Easter Sunday was coming.
Blog text (18) -
This is the story of Easter Sunday.
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"You know I always cry on Easter Sunday, Mama."
Fiction book (1990) -
Still, the friend had persuaded her to go to church with her on that Easter Sunday.
Fiction book (1997) -
They have arrived at about 1:00 a.m. on Easter Sunday.
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This is gonna be an Easter Sunday dinner like you've never had before.
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Did the Apostles see something that could not be explained on that remote Easter Sunday?
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Then, on Easter Sunday 1722, European sailors rediscovered the island and named it Easter Island.
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Many families gather for Easter Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Synonyms
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A Christian holiday celebrating Jesus coming back to life
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The day when Christians celebrate that Jesus came back to life
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the Sunday on which Easter is celebrated' is directly and compositionally derived from combining the holiday name 'Easter' with the weekday 'Sunday'; a learner who knows both constituents will readily infer this refers to that specific Sunday. This construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g. 'Domingo de Pascua', 'dimanche de Pâques'), so the relation is transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Easter Sunday gets its name from the Christian story that Jesus came back to life on a Sunday, so the day is the special Easter 'Sunday' when Christians celebrate the 'resurrection'.