Definitions of shrovetide [ˈʃroʊvˌtaɪd]

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Definition of 'shrovetide'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Shrovetide
the three days before Ash Wednesday.

Definition of 'shrovetide'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Shrovetide
immediately preceding Lent

Definition of 'shrovetide'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) shrovetide
the days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday

Definitions of 'shrovetide'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. shrovetide
confession-time, especially the days immediately before Lent, when, in Catholic times, the people confessed their sins to the parish priest and afterwards gave themselves up to sports, and dined on pancakes, Shrove Tuesday being Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, or the first day of Lent.

Translation of 'shrovetide'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the three days before Ash Wednesday.
Afrikaans: Vastedag	Arabic: أيام المَرافِع	Bulgarian: великденски заговезни
Brazilian: entrudo	Czech: tři dny před Popeleční st	German: die Faschingstage, der Ka
Danish: fastelavn	Greek: οι τρεις πρώτες ημέρες τη	Spanish: carnestolendas
Estonian: vastlad	Farsi: سه زور قبل از چهارشنبه خا	Finnish: laskiainen
French: les jours gras	Hebrew: בְּמַהֲלַך צוֹם לָנט	Hindi: पूत काल
Croatian: tri dana prije Pepelnice,	Hungarian: a farsang utolsó három na	Indonesian: tiga hari sebelum Rabu Ab
Italian: (ultimi tre giorni di Car	Japanese: 聖灰水曜日直前の３日間	Korean: 재의 수요일 전의 3일간
Lithuanian: Užgavėnės	Latvian: trīs dienu periods pirms	Malay: tiga hari sebelum Rabu Ab
Dutch: de drie dagen vóór Aswoen	Norwegian: fastelavn	Polish: ostatki
Persian: سه زور قبل از چهارشنبه خا	Pashto: درى ورځى له خاكى چهارشنبه	Russian: масленица
Slovak: posledné tri dni fašiango	Slovenian: pustničas	Serbian: tri dana pre Pokladne sre
Swedish: fastlag[en]	Thai: สามวันก่อนAsh Wednesday	Turkish: Büyük Perhiz'den üç gün ö
Taiwanese: 懺悔節	Ukrainian: Масниця, Масляна	Urdu: رمادی بدھ کے تین دن قبل ک
Vietnamese: ba ngày trước tuần ăn cha	Chinese: 忏悔节
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