Easter

Noun

 * 1)  A Christian feast commemorating the resurrection of Christ; the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or next after the vernal equinox
 * We spent each of the past five Easters together as a family.
 * 1) Eastertide
 * 2)  The Jewish passover.
 * 3) * 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark XIV:
 * After two dayes folowed ester, and the dayes of swete breed.
 * 1)  A festival held in honour of the goddess Eostre or Ostara and celebrated at the spring equinox or within the month of April. Also known as Eostre.

Related terms

 * Easter Bunny
 * Easter egg
 * Easter Monday
 * Easter Sunday

Thesaurus
Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Corpus Christi, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whitweek

Etymology
eastre:, apparently from Eastre:, the name of a goddess whose festival was celebrated at the vernal equinox.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Paasfees
 * Albanian: Pashkët
 * Alutiiq:
 * American Sign Language: E@SideNeckhigh-PalmAcross-E@SideNeckhigh-PalmAcross E@SideNeckhigh-PalmForward-E@SideNeckhigh-PalmForward
 * Amharic: ፋሲካ (Fasika)
 * Arabic: عيد الفصح
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: Pasxa,
 * Belarusian: Вялікдзень
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian: Великден (Velikden), Възкресение Христово (Văzkresenie Hristovo)
 * Catalan:, Pasqua de Resurrecció
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish:
 * Croatian: Uskrs, Vazam
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, Paasfeest
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: Lihavõtted, ülestõusmispühad
 * Faroese: Páskir
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:, Ανάσταση, Λαμπρή
 * Hebrew: פסחא
 * Hindi: ईस्टर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: Paskah
 * Irish: Cháisc, Cásca
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 聖大パスハ


 * Korean: 부활절
 * Lakota: Woekicetuanpetu
 * Latin:, festa paschalia
 * Latvian: Lieldienas
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: പെശഹ
 * Maltese: Għid il-Kbir
 * Manx:
 * North Ndebele: Pasika
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: eastre
 * Old Irish:
 * Ossetian: куадзæн
 * Persian: عید پاک
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: Ускрс, Васкрс, Вeликден arch.
 * Roman: Uskrs, Vaskrs, Velikden arch.
 * Slovak: Veľká Noc
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay
 * Thai: อีสเตอร์
 * Tongan: Pekia
 * Turkish: Paskalya
 * Ukrainian: Великдень, Паска,
 * Vietnamese: : Lễ Phục Sinh, Phục Sinh
 * Welsh: Pasg
 * Yiddish: פּאַסכע

Anagrams

 * aretes, arêtes
 * eaters
 * reseat
 * saeter
 * seater
 * teaser
 * Teresa