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Eastermonth

Eastermonth proper noun: the typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April.

Proper noun

Eastermonth

  1. (poetic) The typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April.
    • It is pretended that it is a heathen institution, or copied from a heathen institution; which reflection is derived from the circumstance of there having been a goddess called by different writers Aoster, Eoster, Eostre, Oster, or Easter, whose feast was celebrated in the month of April, which was...1807, The churchman's magazine
    • Charlemagne called April the Easter month, because it is the month in which Easter usually falls.1865, The Bromley record and monthly advertiser

Examples of Eastermonth in a sentence

  • When the month that we call Eastermonth is over, then the night lasts ten hours and the day fourteen hours.1900, Georg Herzfeld, Original series:
  • However, we find nineteen [and five] nights from the time that Eastermonth comes, the cycle revolves eke to the day when eager with song fervent with words we worship, [...]2003, Cyril Roy Hart, Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England:

Forms of Eastermonth

alternative formEaster month
alternative formEaster Month
alternative formEaster-month

Origin of Eastermonth

Calque of Old English Ēastermōnaþ (“April”, literally “Easter-month”), equivalent to Easter + month. Cognate with Old Dutch ōstermānoth (“April”), German Ostermonat (“April”, literally “Easter-month”) (cp. German Ostermond (“April”, literally “Easter-moon”)).

Questions about Eastermonth

What does Eastermonth mean?
Eastermonth means the typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April.
How do you use Eastermonth in a sentence?
When the month that we call Eastermonth is over, then the night lasts ten hours and the day fourteen hours.
What part of speech is Eastermonth?
Eastermonth is a proper noun.

Words near Eastermonth in the dictionary

  1. easterliness
  2. easterling
  3. easterlings
  4. easterly
  5. Easterlys
  6. Eastermonth
  7. eastermost
  8. eastern
  9. Eastern Abenaki
  10. Eastern Abnaki
  11. Eastern Acipa

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