Pentecost

Meaning of Pentecost

noun
  1. the Christian festival celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples of Jesus after his Ascension, held on the seventh Sunday after Easter.
  2. the Jewish festival of Shavuoth.

Old English pentecosten, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek pentēkostē (hēmera) ‘fiftieth (day)’ (because the Jewish festival is held on the fiftieth day after the second day of Passover).

Information about Pentecost

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of Pentecost is: Pentecosts.
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Hyphenation of Pentecost

Pen-te-cost

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • Pentecost is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Pentecost synonyms

Whitsunday

Meaning Shavous:

Shabuoth, Shavuoth, Shavuot

Translation of Pentecost

Words that rhyme with Pentecost

Cost, cost, acost, accost, reaccost, alecost, becost, pentecost, recost, Pancost, millincost, oncost, uncost, aftercost, discost

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