Definitions for Easter

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Easter Eas·ter

Spelling: [ee-ster]

IPA: /ˈi stər/

Easter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in Easter (aeerst).

Definitions for Easter

noun

1. an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
2. Also called Easter Sunday. the day on which this festival is celebrated.
3. the Easter season; the week following Easter.

Origin of Easter

before 900; Middle English ester, Old English ēastre; cognate with German Ostern; orig. name of a goddess and her festival; akin to east

Examples for Easter

On Easter Monday she was seized with a great fit of shivering.

At the center of it all is Easter Elchies House—one of the so-called six pillars of the company.

And I was lucky enough to receive an invitation to stay at Easter Elchies House, the spiritual home at The Macallan.

At the same time, the Easter Elchies House began to deteriorate.

If not at Christmas then at Easter; and whenever it was she should find her room a bower.

He liked the Easter ceremonial better, perhaps, than that of Christmas.

The land at Easter Elchies was the ideal place for Reid to set up his business.

The company soon embarked on a refurbishment of Easter Elchies, opening to the public in 1985.

His stepfather had sent him at Easter to a good preparatory school.

On the Wednesday after Easter (April 16th), the death agony commenced.