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pentecost

/ˈpɛntəˌkɔst/

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What does pentecost mean?

proper noun

  1. Synonym of Shavuot (“a Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the omer (“sheaf of barley”) is offered; a ceremony held on that day to commemorate the giving of the Torah (“first five books of the Hebrew scriptures”) to Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinai”).
  2. A festival which falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter which commemorates the event described in Acts 2 of the Bible when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles during the Jewish festival of Pentecost (proper noun sense 1), conferring on them the miraculous ability to explain the gospel in languages they did not know; also, the Sunday on which the festival is celebrated.
  3. In full day of Pentecost or Pentecost day: the day on which the event commemorated by the festival (proper noun sense 2) occurred; also, the event itself.
More meanings (3)

proper noun

  1. Synonym of Whitsuntide (“the week beginning on Whitsunday; also, the weekend which includes Whitsunday”).
  2. The gift of the Holy Spirit to a Christian; also, the occurrence of this.
  3. A surname.

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/ˈpɛntəˌkɔst/

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Nevertheless, in the scene of Pentecost, which follows that of the Ascension, there is no lack of dramatic vividness.
John FiskeThe Unseen World, and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #1486
At last, at the feast of Pentecost, Arthur again pulled out the sword before all the knights and the commons.
Sara Cone BryantHow to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to TellProject Gutenberg ebook #474
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Read Peter's first sermon on the day of Pentecost.
Carry Amelia NationThe Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationProject Gutenberg ebook #1485
When Peter preached Christ at the first Pentecost, the Holy Ghost fell upon the hearers, “and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”
Martin LutherCommentary on the Epistle to the GalatiansTranslated by Theodore GraebnerProject Gutenberg ebook #1549
The men to whom St. Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, next after the Ascension of our Saviour, asked him, and the rest of the Apostles, saying, (Act.
Thomas HobbesLeviathanProject Gutenberg ebook #3207