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pentecosters

pentecosters is the plural of pentecoster.

Meaning of pentecoster

Noun

pentecoster (plural pentecosters)

  1. An officer who commands fifty men, particularly (historical) in the Spartan army.
    • ...they would have the command of the pentecoster, penteconter, or pentecoptater (for thus variously the title is written)...1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece

Questions about pentecosters

What is pentecosters the plural of?
Pentecosters is the plural of pentecoster.

Words near pentecosters in the dictionary

  1. Pentecostally
  2. Pentecostals
  3. Pentecostaria
  4. Pentecostarion
  5. pentecoster
  6. pentecosters
  7. pentecosties
  8. Pentecosts
  9. pentecosty
  10. pentecostys
  11. pentegraph

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