Eastertide

American  

[ee-ster-tahyd] / ˈi stərˌtaɪd /

noun

1. Easter time.

2. the week following Easter.

3. the 50 days between Easter and Whitsuntide.

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Eastertide British  

/ ˈiːstəˌtaɪd /

noun

1. the Easter season

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Usage

What does Eastertide mean? Eastertide is another word for Easter time, the period around Easter, the holiday on which Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.Easter is also widely observed in secular (nonreligious) ways and is often associated with rebirth and the start of springtime, but Eastertide is typically used in religious contexts.Easter always occurs on a Sunday, and the day is sometimes called Easter Sunday. In religious contexts, Easter can also refer to the Easter season or Eastertide. Sometimes, Eastertide is considered to consist of Easter Sunday and the week after. Some branches of Christianity consider Eastertide to last for 50 days, until the day known as Pentecost or Whitsunday.

Etymology

Origin of Eastertide

1100–50; Middle English Estertyde, late Old English Eastren tyde. See Easter, tide ¹

Example Sentences

Hunter cites, among some of his references, Ben Franklin, the Constitution, Pete Seeger, the Bible, E. E. cummings, Bonnie Dobson, an Eastertide anthem called “Roll Away the Stone,” and the birth of his son.

From The New Yorker

"It is therefore my special prayer this Eastertide that they will be your guide and your inspiration."

From BBC

Handel’s “Messiah,” after all, which was also written for Eastertide, is performed far more often around Christmas.

From New York Times

This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited, springtime surge of joy, light and purity felt by celebrants.

From Time

But it was past Eastertide, and before Lammas.

From Literature