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pentecost
noun(Pen-te-cost)
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pentecost
noun(Pen-te-cost)
a Christian feast on the seventh Sunday after Easter commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles —called also Whitsunday
pentecost
geographical name(Pen-te-cost)
island of Vanuatu in the southwestern Pacific population 31,500
pentecost
noun(Pen-te-cost)
a Jewish holiday observed on the sixth of Sivan and by Orthodox and Conservative Jews in the Diaspora also on the seventh of Sivan in commemoration of the revelation of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai —called also Pentecost

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