Definition of Eastertide

1. Noun. The Easter season.

Generic synonyms: Season

Definition of Eastertide

1. Noun. The season from Easter to Whitsun ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eastertide

Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Question
Eastern Roman Empire
Eastern Samoa
Eastern Sioux
Eastern Standard Time
Eastern Time
Eastern Turki
Eastern cottonwood
Eastern hop hornbeam
Eastern pasque flower
Eastern silvery aster
Easters
Eastertide
Eastertime
Eastertimes
Eastery
Eastie
Eastleigh
Eastman
Eastoft
Eat at Joe's
Eaton agent
Eaton agent pneumonia
Eau Claire
EbN
EbS
Ebbie

Literary usage of Eastertide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science from an Easy Chair: A Second Series by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"... CHAPTER XXI eastertide, SHAMROCKS AND SPERMACETI MOST people think of Easter as a Christian festival, but it is really in name and origin a pagan one. ..."

2. The Songs of the Russian People: As Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and by William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1872)
"To this day the Servians keep up a custom very similar to the Russian Cuckoo-Christening, held at eastertide in memory of the dead, with kiss- ings through ..."

3. Christian Worship: Its Origin and Evolution. A Study of the Latin Liturgy Up by Louis Duchesne (1904)
"eastertide. The Christian Easter was preceded by a fast and followed by seven weeks of ... Thus defined, Lent and eastertide may claim attestation of their ..."

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