Easter
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- noun
- /ˈiːstər/
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Pascua
- Have a wonderful Easter with your family.
- Easter eggs
- Happy Easter
- Easter egg hunt
If you guys don't celebrate Easter, happy spring.
- If you guys don't celebrate Easter, happy spring.
- Let me see Happy Easter in Spanish.
- A fucking dollar store Easter sign that said he is risen.
- They had so much like Easter crafting things.
- It's also a perfect dessert for Easter or to celebrate spring.
- And this is like last year on Easter, my mom died alcohol.
Examples
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Easter eggs in the same faded pastel shades: pink, aqua, lilac, daffodil.
Fiction book (1998) -
How's everyone doing on this fine Easter Sunday?
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Happy Easter and love to you and your beautiful family!
Blog text (11) -
It's also a perfect dessert for Easter or to celebrate spring.
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Mum and I are about to make some Easter biscuits.
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We went and got some bits for the Easter baskets.
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- Happy Easter, everyone.
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Happy Easter to all!
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Little Roy always looks as if he has come straight from the links, tanned and dressed in bright Easter-egg colors.
Fiction book (2000) -
How's everyone doing on this fine Easter Sunday?
Synonyms
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The Sunday when Christians celebrate Jesus rising from the dead
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The day when Christians celebrate that Jesus came back to life
The Christian festival of Easter celebrated especially in Eastern churches
A Christian festival that celebrates Jesus rising from the dead
Compounds
A tall white lily with large trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in spring, often used at Easter
An evergreen climbing plant with glossy leaves and fragrant white, trumpet-shaped flowers
A South American cactus that flowers in spring with flat stems and bright pink or red flowers often grown indoors
- US
Small low plant with soft hairy leaves and white daisy-like flowers that bloom in early spring
Surface Forms
Etymology
Easter probably comes from the Old English name Ēostre, which is linked to the English word east meaning 'dawn'. So the holiday feels like a 'dawn' or 'new life' after winter, which fits the Christian idea of Jesus rising from the dead. Many other languages use a different word from Pascha ('Passover'), showing the same time and idea of new life.