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Candlemass

Candlemass is the alternative form of Candlemas.

Meaning of Candlemas

Noun

Candlemas (countable and uncountable, plural Candlemases)

  1. The festival in the Christian year celebrated on February 2nd. It commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple.
    • To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out...1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life...
  2. A quarter day in Scotland.

Questions about Candlemass

What is Candlemass the alternative form of?
Candlemass is the alternative form of Candlemas.

Words near Candlemass in the dictionary

  1. candlemakers
  2. candlemaking
  3. Candlemas
  4. Candlemas Island
  5. Candlemases
  6. Candlemass
  7. candlenut
  8. candlenuts
  9. candlepin
  10. candlepin bowling
  11. candlepins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Candlemass (page history and authors); Candlemas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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