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CHRISTIAN HOLY DAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A religious holiday for Christians
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Christian holy day" is a kind of...):
holy day; religious holiday (a day specified for religious observance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Christian holy day"):
August 6; Transfiguration; Transfiguration Day ((Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus)
Fat Tuesday; Mardi Gras; pancake day; Shrove Tuesday (the last day before Lent)
Advent Sunday (the first of the four Sundays during Advent)
Ember Day (a day set aside for fasting and prayer)
Ash Wednesday (the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras ('Fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance)
All Souls' Day; November 2 (a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory)
Twelfth night (eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5)
March 19; Saint Joseph; St Joseph (a Christian holy day)
Epiphany; Epiphany of Our Lord; January 6; Three Kings' Day; Twelfth day (twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus)
June 29; Saints Peter and Paul (first celebrated in the 3rd century)
Corpus Christi (Thursday after Trinity Sunday; first celebrated in 1246)
Holy Thursday; Maundy Thursday (the Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper)
Rogation Day (one of the three days before Ascension Day; observed by some Christians as days of supplication)
Trinity Sunday (eighth Sunday after Easter)
Quadragesima; Quadrigesima Sunday (the first Sunday in Lent)
Quinquagesima; Quinquagesima Sunday (the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent))
Septuagesima; Septuagesima Sunday (the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter))
Holy Innocents' Day; Innocents' Day (December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem)
Holy Saturday (the Saturday before Easter; the last day of Lent)
Low Sunday (the Sunday following Easter)
Good Friday (Friday before Easter)
Passion Sunday (second Sunday before Easter)
Palm Sunday (Sunday before Easter)
Easter Day; Easter Sunday (the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated)
January 20; Saint Agnes's Eve (a Christian holy day)
holy day of obligation (a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion)
quarter day (a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due)
