Noun

(en noun)

(Christianity) A Christian feast commemorating the resurrection of Christ; the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or next after the vernal equinox, neither earlier than March 22 nor later than April 25.

We spent each of the past five Easters together as a family.

Eastertide

(obsolete) The Jewish passover.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark XIV:

After two dayes folowed ester , and the dayes of swete breed.

(paganism) A festival held in honour of the goddess Eostre or Ostara and celebrated at the spring equinox or within the month of April. Also known as Eostre.

Noun

Gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.

Gift given on any other holiday or occasion.

Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.

(Latin America) Christmas carol.

A song performed in this style.

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 16, author=Jon Pareles, title=Planting a Love Seed at the Garden, work=New York Times citation

, passage=And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo , gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro. }}

Wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.