Whitsun
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- enPR: hwĭtʹsən, IPA(key): /ˈʍɪt.sən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
Whitsun (plural Whitsuns)
- Whitsunday
- 1909, Sidney Heath, Romance of Symbolism: Fonts and the symbols of baptism - The times of which Whitsun Eve is one, are specified by ... the constitutions for Orthobon for England, Gerona, 517, c. iv.
- The holiday beginning on Whitsunday
- 1978, Peter Bailey, Leisure and class in Victorian England: Rational recreation and the contest for control, quoting "a British observation from early 20th century", read in Orvar Löfgren, On Holiday: A History of Vacationing (2002) - The excursion train used to vomit forth, at Easter and in Whitsun week, throngs of millhands of the period, cads and their flames, tawdry, blowsy, noisy, drunken.
Synonyms
Translations
Whitsunday — see Whitsunday
Adjective
Whitsun (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to Whitsunday or Whitsuntide