He was bitten by a shark November 5 at Cid Harbour, a large and popular anchorage in the Whitsunday Islands off eastern Australia.
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Whitsunday
//wɪtˈsʌndeɪ//
Synonyms for "whitsunday" (19 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Related words (9)
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7 entriesTranslations
93 translations across 53 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- Pinkstersondag noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Albanian
2 entries- rrëshajë noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- rshajë noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Πεντηκοστή noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Armenian
1 entries- Հոգեգալուստ noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Bulgarian
1 entries- петдесе́тница noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Catalan
1 entries- Pentecosta noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Chinese
1 entries- 五旬節 /五旬节 noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 五旬節 /五旬节 noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- 聖靈降臨節 /圣灵降临节 noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 五旬節 /五旬节 noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- 收割節 /收割节 noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- 聖靈降臨節 /圣灵降临节 noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Czech
2 entries- Svatodušní svátky noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- letnice noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Danish
2 entries- pinse noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- pinsedag noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Dutch
1 entries- Pinksteren noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Esperanto
1 entries- Pentekosto noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Estonian
1 entries- Nelipüha noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Faroese
2 entries- hvítusunna noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- hvítusunnudagur noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Finnish
2 entries- helluntai noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- helluntaipäivä noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
French
1 entries- Pentecôte noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Georgian
2 entries- მეერგასე დღე noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- სულთმოფენობა noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
German
4 entries- Pfingsten noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Pfingstfest noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Pfingstsonntag noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Pfingsttag noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Greek
1 entries- Πεντηκοστή noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 五旬節 /五旬节 noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Hungarian
2 entries- pünkösd noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- pünkösdvasárnap noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Icelandic
2 entries- Hvítasunnudagur noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- hvítasunna noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Indonesian
1 entries- pentakosta noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Ingrian
1 entries- Troitsa noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Irish
2 entries- Cincís noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Domhnach na Cincíse noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Italian
1 entries- Pentecoste noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Japanese
3 entries- ペンテコステ noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- 聖霊降臨 noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- 聖霊降臨祭 noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Latvian
1 entries- Vasarsvētki noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Sekminės noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- swětki noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Macedonian
3 entries- Ду́овден noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Ду́ховден noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Педесе́тница noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Malayalam
1 entries- പെന്തക്കൊസ്താ noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Maltese
1 entries- Għid il-Ħamsin noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Māori
1 entries- Petekoha noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Norman
1 entries- Pentecôte noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- pinse noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- pins noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- pinse noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Pinjstdach noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Polish
4 entries- Pięćdziesiątnica noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Zesłanie Ducha Świętego noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Zielone Świątki noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Zielone Święta noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Portuguese
2 entries- Pentecoste noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Pentecostes noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Romanian
3 entries- Rusalii noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- cincizecime noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- rusalii noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Russian
4 entries- Тро́ица noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Тро́ицын день noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- день Свято́й Тро́ицы noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- пятидеся́тница noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- a' Chaingis noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Slovak
2 entries- Svätodušné sviatky noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Turíce noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Spanish
1 entries- Pentecostés noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Swedish
1 entries- pingstdag noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Tagalog
1 entries- Pentekostes noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Turkish
4 entries- Hamsin Yortusu noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Pankot noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Pentekost noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Pentikost noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Ukrainian
4 entries- День Зісла́ння Свято́го Ду́ха noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- День Святої Трійці noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Зеле́на неді́ля noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- П'ятдеся́тниця noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Volapük
1 entries- pint noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Welsh
2 entries- Pentecost noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
- Sulgwyn noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
West-Frisian
1 entries- Pinkster noun (Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Holonyms: Pentecost (season), Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit
Source: wiktionary
Jesus, ascended into Heav'n again/Bestow'd this won'drous Gift upon good Men/That various Nations, by his Spirit led,/All understood what Galileans said.
Source: wiktionary
An older name for this day [Pentecost] is Whitsunday, or “white Sunday,” named for the white garments worn by the newly baptised.
Source: wiktionary
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