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Mother's Night

Mother's Night proper noun: an Anglo-Saxon midwinter feast recorded by Bede, or a modern version of this festival celebrated by some Heathens.

Proper noun

Mother's Night

  1. An Anglo-Saxon midwinter feast recorded by Bede, or a modern version of this festival celebrated by some Heathens.
    • The most sacred and important of all Heathen holy celebrations falls within this span of time and is called Modraniht or Mother's Night.2005, Galina Krasskova, Exploring the Northern Tradition, Career Press Inc., →ISBN, page 181

Origin of Mother's Night

A calque, or perhaps a continuation, of Old English Mōdraniht.

Questions about Mother's Night

What does Mother's Night mean?
Mother's Night means an Anglo-Saxon midwinter feast recorded by Bede, or a modern version of this festival celebrated by some Heathens.
What part of speech is Mother's Night?
Mother's Night is a proper noun.

Words near Mother's Night in the dictionary

  1. mother's line
  2. mother's little helper
  3. mother's little helpers
  4. mother's mark
  5. mother's milk
  6. Mother's Night
  7. mother's ruin
  8. mother-bird
  9. mother-birds
  10. mother-fucker
  11. mother-fuckers

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