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Eastertide

[ ee-ster-tahyd ]

noun

  1. Easter time.
  2. the week following Easter.
  3. the 50 days between Easter and Whitsuntide.


Eastertide

/ ˈiːstəˌtaɪd /

noun

  1. the Easter season


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Eastertide1

1100–50; Middle English Estertyde, late Old English Eastren tyde. See Easter, tide 1

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Example Sentences

But now I have lately received your long loving letter of last Eastertide, partly written in bed.

The scene portrayed was a procession of early Christians entering an Eastern city at Eastertide.

It was a pleasant time, that summer term, and life moved on very equably for Michael, notwithstanding his Eastertide heartbreak.

In England this happiness is expressed in a practical manner by many marriages at Eastertide.

The legend that established the hare as a symbol of the Eastertide is not generally known.

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