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holytide

holytide noun: a holy day, or religious festival.

Noun

holytide (plural holytides)

  1. A holy day, or religious festival.
    • […] and do not know how the critical days of the great siege are there kept as festivals practically of more account than the common holytides of Christendom; […]1886, Arthur Cayley Headlam, The Church Quarterly Review, volume 22, page 233

Forms of holytide

pluralholytides

Questions about holytide

What does holytide mean?
Holytide means a holy day, or religious festival.
What part of speech is holytide?
Holytide is a noun.
What is the plural of holytide?
The plural of holytide is holytides.

Words near holytide in the dictionary

  1. Holyshiv
  2. holystone
  3. holystoned
  4. holystones
  5. holystoning
  6. holytide
  7. holytides
  8. Holytown
  9. Holywell
  10. Holywell Green
  11. Holywell Street

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