Word.ws English Dictionary

pentecosties

pentecosties is the plural of pentecosty.

Meaning of pentecosty

Noun

pentecosty (plural pentecosties or pentecostys)

  1. (Ancient Greece) A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army.
    • There were seven companies in the field without counting the Sciritae, who numbered six hundred men: in each company there were four Pentecostyes, and in the Pentecosty four Enomoties.1874, Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 5

Questions about pentecosties

What is pentecosties the plural of?
Pentecosties is the plural of pentecosty.

Words near pentecosties in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pentecosties (page history and authors); pentecosty (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pentecosties.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pentecosties. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.