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Whitsunday vs Whitmonday - What's the difference?

whitsunday | whitmonday |

As nouns the difference between whitsunday and whitmonday

is that whitsunday is the sunday of the feast of pentecost, seven weeks after easter, when traditionally many christians would be baptised, wearing white clothes while whitmonday is the monday immediately after whitsunday.

whitsunday

English

Alternative forms

* Whit Sunday

Noun

(en noun)
  • The Sunday of the feast of Pentecost, seven weeks after Easter, when traditionally many Christians would be baptised, wearing white clothes
  • * 1773:' John Byrom, ''On '''Whitsunday ''in ''Miscellaneous Poems - Jesus, ascended into Heav'n again/Bestow'd this won'drous Gift upon good Men/That various Nations, by his Spirit led,/All understood what Galileans said.
  • * 2004: Vicki K Black, Welcome to the Church Year: An Introduction to the Seasons of the Episcopal Church - An older name for this day [Pentecost] is Whitsunday, or “white Sunday,” named for the white garments worn by the newly baptised.
  • (Scotland) A quarter day, falling on 15th May

    • Derived terms

    * Whitsun *

    whitmonday

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The Monday immediately after Whitsunday.
    • (Webster 1913)