Whitsunday
/wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/ name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.
"Holonyms: Pentecost (season), Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit"
- 2 seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles; a quarter day in Scotland wordnet
- 3 A quarter day falling on 15th May. Scotland
Proper Noun
- 1 A local government area in northern Queensland, Australia; in full, Whitsunday Region.
Example
More examples"He was bitten by a shark November 5 at Cid Harbour, a large and popular anchorage in the Whitsunday Islands off eastern Australia."
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.