Whitsun

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 wĭtʹsən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Whitsunday.
    — 1909, Sidney Heath, Romance of Symbolism: Fonts and the symbols of baptism - The times [for baptism] of which Whitsun Eve is one, are specified by ... the constitutions for Orthobon for England, Gerona, 517, c. iv.
  2. The holiday beginning on Whitsunday.
    — 1978, Peter Bailey, Leisure and class in Victorian England: Rational recreation and the contest for control, quoting "a British observation from early 20th century", read in Orvar Löfgren, On Holiday: A History of Vacationing (2002) - The excursion train used to vomit forth, at Easter and in Whitsun week, throngs of millhands of the period, cads and their flames, tawdry, blowsy, noisy, drunken.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, or relating to Whitsunday or Whitsuntide not-comparable

词形变化

Whitsuns plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Whitsun Monday Whitsun term Whitsun Tuesday

词源

词源 1
Apocopic form of Whitsunday.
词源 2
Apocopic form of Whitsunday.
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