easter

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UK /ˈiːstə/ US /ˈistəɹ/

noun 6verb 3name 1adj 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

early, late

My family always waits to see if Easter will be late or early before planning our spring vacation.

VERB + EASTER

have, spend

My family spent Easter together at my grandmother's house last year.

celebrate

EASTER + NOUN

egg | break, holiday/holidays, vacation | Day, weekend, Monday, Saturday, Sunday, week | festival | celebrations

PREP

at ~

My family always gathers at Easter to celebrate together with a big meal.

for ~

My family always plans a special holiday dinner for Easter.

over ~

Many shops stay closed over Easter to give staff time with their families.

PHRASES

Happy Easter!, wish sb a happy Easter

Definitions

noun

A Christian feast commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated on the first Sunday (and Monday) following the full moon that occurs on or next after the vernal equinox, ranging in most of Western Christianity (such as Pr

We spent each of the past five Easters together as a family.

During the Easter season, the Russians are planning “a great battle in Donbas,” the Russian-occupied region in Ukraine’s far east. “This is not Christian behavior at all, as I understand it. On Easter they will kill, and they will be killed.”

Eastertide (“the period from Easter to Whitsun”).

Meronyms: Easter Day, Easter Sunday

Usually preceded by an inflection of make: the act of receiving the Eucharist during Easter.

Ellipsis of Easter term.

A festival held in honour of the goddess Eostre or Ostara, celebrated at the vernal equinox or within the month of April; Eostre, Ostara.

name

A surname.

verb

To celebrate Easter.

To spend the Easter season in some place.

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Synonyms

noun — a wind from the east

easterly

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

happy Easter

An expression used during Easter to wish someone a happy time.

Example Bank

We spent each of the past five Easters together as a family.

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Meronyms: Easter Day, Easter Sunday

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In the mean while, as our apartment was a corner one, and looked both east and north, I ran to the easter casement to look after Drummond.

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This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]

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There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […]

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, easter is marked as dated, figuratively, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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