Pentecost
pronunciation
How to pronounce Pentecost in British English:
UK [ˈpentɪkɒst]
How to pronounce Pentecost in American English:
US [ˈpentɪkɔst]
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- Noun:
- seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the apostles; a quarter day in Scotland
- (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments
Word Origin
- pentecost
- pentecost: see five
- Pentecost
- Old English Pentecosten "Christian festival on seventh Sunday after Easter," from Late Latin pentecoste, from Greek pentekoste (hemera) "fiftieth (day)," fem. of pentekostos, from pentekonta "fifty," from pente "five" (see five). The Hellenic name for the Old Testament Feast of Weeks, a Jewish harvest festival observed on 50th day of the Omer (see Lev. xxiii:16).
Example
- 1. Of or relating to or occurring at pentecost .
- 2. In the church year pentecost covered the period from easter to pentecost sunday .
- 3. One of the most important feasts in the christian liturgical year is the pentecost .
- 4. In general , what was given to earth at pentecost was the " spirit of truth . "
- 5. For example , peter 's sermon on the day of pentecost , reported in acts 2 : whatever its distinctive features , it is above all the first post-resurrection christian evangelistic sermon , the first christian sermon after the descent of the holy spirit .