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Definitions for Pentecost
ˈpɛn tɪˌkɔst, -ˌkɒstpen·te·cost

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Pentecost, Whitsundaynoun

    seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles; a quarter day in Scotland

  2. Shavous, Shabuoth, Shavuoth, Shavuot, Pentecost, Feast of Weeksnoun

    (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments

Wiktionary

  1. Pentecostnoun

    A Jewish festival (also known as Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks) seven weeks after the feast of Firstfruits or Yom Habikkurim, originally a harvest festival but, since the destruction of the Temple, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai. [See Wikipedia article on Shavuot for further information on, and chronology of, these feasts.]

  2. Pentecostnoun

    The particular (Jewish) Pentecost 49 days (inclusive) after the resurrection of Jesus on the (Jewish) Day of First Fruits, when (in Christian teaching) the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles with miraculous effects including the ability to explain the Gospel intelligibly in languages they did not know; or a similar occasion since.

  3. Pentecostnoun

    Christian festival (also known as Whitsun or Whitsunday), which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles (see above definition).

  4. Pentecostnoun

    Pentecostal manifestation, such as in a church service.

  5. Etymology: From πεντηκοστή

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. PENTECOSTnoun

    A feast among the Jews.

    Etymology: πεντεϰοστὴ; pentacoste, Fr.

    Pentecost signifies the fiftieth, because this feast was celebrated the fiftieth day after the sixteenth of Nisan, which was the second day of the feast of the passover: the Hebrews call it the feast of weeks, because it was kept seven weeks after the passover: they then offered the first fruits of the wheat harvest, which then was completed: it was instituted to oblige the Israelites to repair to the temple, there to acknowledge the Lord’s dominion, and also to render thanks to God for the law he had given them from mount Sinai, on the fiftieth day after their coming out of Egypt. Augustin Calmet.

    ’Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,
    Come pentecost as quickly as it will
    Some five and twenty years. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

ChatGPT

  1. pentecost

    Pentecost is a Christian holy day that falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter and celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ as described in the New Testament. This event, which happened 50 days after Jesus' resurrection, marked the birth of the early Christian church. The term "Pentecost" also refers to the Jewish festival called Shavuot or 'Feast of Weeks', which occurs fifty days after Passover.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pentecostnoun

    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

  2. Pentecostnoun

    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

  3. Etymology: [L. pentecoste, Gr. (sc. ) the fiftieth day, Pentecost, fr. fiftieth, fr. fifty, fr. five. See Five, and cf. Pingster.]

Wikidata

  1. Pentecost

    Pentecost is the Greek name for the Feast of Weeks, a prominent feast in the calendar of ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai. This feast is still celebrated in Judaism as Shavuot. Later, in the Christian liturgical year, it became a feast commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ, as described in the Acts of the Apostles 2:1–31. For this reason, Pentecost is sometimes described by some Christians today as the "Birthday of the Church." In the Eastern church, Pentecost can also refer to the whole fifty days between Easter and Pentecost, hence the book containing the liturgical texts for Paschaltide is called the Pentecostarion. The feast is also called Whit Sunday, or Whitsun, especially in England, where the following Monday was traditionally a public holiday. Pentecost is celebrated seven weeks after Easter Sunday, hence its name. Pentecost falls on the tenth day after Ascension Thursday. The Pentecostal movement of Christianity derives its name from the New Testament event.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Pentecost

    pen′tē-kost, n. a Jewish festival held on the fiftieth day after the Passover, in commemoration of the giving of the law: the festival of Whitsuntide, held in remembrance of the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the assembled disciples at the feast of Pentecost.—adj. Pentecost′al.—n.pl. offerings formerly made to the parish priest at Whitsuntide. [Gr. pentēkostē (hēmera), the fiftieth (day).]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Pentecost

    a great feast of the Jews, so called as held on the fiftieth day after the second of the Passover. It is called also the Feast of Harvest, or Weeks of First-Fruits, the Passover feast being connected with the commencement and this with the conclusion of harvest. It is regarded by the Jews as commemorative of the giving of the law on Mount Sinai, and will never cease to be associated in the Christian memory with the great awakening from which dates the first birth of the Christian consciousness in the Christian Church, the moment when the disciples of Christ first realised in common that their Master was not dead but alive, and nearer to them than He had been when present in the flesh.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Pentecost

    From the Greek pentekoste, the fiftieth day; relative to the gift of the Law to the Israelites fifty days after their deliverance out of the Land of Bondage. This great festival, corresponding to the Whitsuntide of the Christians, is celebrated by the Jews on the fiftieth day after the “Passover.”

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PENTECOST

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pentecost is ranked #12473 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Pentecost surname appeared 2,489 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Pentecost.

    89.3% or 2,225 total occurrences were White.
    4.8% or 120 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 70 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.3% or 33 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.9% or 24 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.6% or 17 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Pentecost in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Pentecost in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Pentecost in a Sentence

  1. Francis Cardinal George, OMI:

    Pentecost is a feast of conversion. Our minds are converted to Christ in faith; and our hearts are converted to His mission in charity. Faith and charity are given with the coming of the Holy Spirit. Everything in the Church is a gift.

  2. Clarence Cramer:

    Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity.

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