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Whitsunday

Syllables: Whit·sun·day/wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/US/wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/

Whitsunday noun: the Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.

Noun

Whitsunday (plural Whitsundays)

  1. The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.
    • Holonyms: Pentecost (season), Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit
    • Jesus, ascended into Heav'n again/Bestow'd this won'drous Gift upon good Men/That various Nations, by his Spirit led,/All understood what Galileans said.1773, John Byrom, “On Whitsunday”, in Miscellaneous Poems
  2. (Scotland) A quarter day falling on 15th May.

Proper noun

Whitsunday

  1. A local government area in northern Queensland, Australia; in full, Whitsunday Region.

Whitsunday meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Tagalog and Indonesian

Whitsunday in Tamil

யூதர் அறுவடை நாள் விழா

Whitsunday in Malayalam

Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls
പെന്തക്കൊസ്താ pentakkostā

Whitsunday in Tagalog

Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls
Pentekostes

Whitsunday in Indonesian

Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls
pentakosta

Synonyms of Whitsunday

Forms of Whitsunday

pluralWhitsundays

Origin of Whitsunday

Inherited from Middle English Whitsonday, from whit (“white”) + Sonday (“Sunday”), from Old English hwīt sunnandæg, probably from the white clothes worn by newly baptized Christians as Pentecost was a traditional date of baptism in early medieval England. Doublet of White Sunday.

Words formed from Whitsunday

Words that rhyme with Whitsunday

Questions about Whitsunday

What does Whitsunday mean?
Whitsunday means the Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.
What is Whitsunday in Tamil?
Whitsunday in Tamil is யூதர் அறுவடை நாள் விழா. See Whitsunday meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Whitsunday?
Whitsunday can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Whitsunday?
Whitsunday is pronounced /wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of Whitsunday?
The plural of Whitsunday is Whitsundays.

Words near Whitsunday in the dictionary

  1. Whitsun Monday
  2. Whitsun Tide
  3. Whitsun Tuesday
  4. Whitsun-night
  5. Whitsun-nights
  6. Whitsunday
  7. Whitsunday Islands
  8. Whitsundays
  9. Whitsuns
  10. Whitsuntide
  11. Whitsuntides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Whitsunday (page history and authors); whitsunday (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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