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PENTECOST
Biblical
fifty count or the counting of fifty days
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for someone who was born at Whitsuntide or had some particular connection with that time of year, such as owing a feudal obligation then. The name is from Middle English, Old French pentecost, from Greek pentēkostē (hēmera) ‘fiftieth (day)’, i.e. the fiftieth day after Easter.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Fiftieth.
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Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Muslim, Parsi
Moon-like; A Beauty Artist
Boy/Male
English
From the meadow.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Shinning Protector
Surname or Lastname
English (south and south Midlands)
English (south and south Midlands) : variant spelling of Laing.
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Fair Woman Like a Swan
Male
Chinese
flourishing bright.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Nivashni | நீவாஷநீ
Diamonds
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name, perhaps from Guilthwaite in South Yorkshire, which is named from Old Norse gil ‘ravine’ + Old Norse þveit ‘clearing’. However, the modern surname is associated with Essex, suggesting some other source, now lost.
Boy/Male
Indian
The mornings light
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Shakespearean
King Henry the Eighth' Sir Nicholas Vaux.
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n.
The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments.
n. pl.
Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.
n.
A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys.
n.
A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.
pl.
of Pentecosty
n.
An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
n.
A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday.
n.
The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost.
a.
Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.