Great Week

American  

noun

Eastern Church.

1. Holy Week.

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Great Week British  

noun

1. Eastern Churches the week preceding Easter, the equivalent of Holy Week in the Western Church

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Etymology

Origin of Great Week

1650–60; translation of Late Greek megalḗ hebdomás

Example Sentences

After Great Week at Wimbledon, Tennis’s Greatest Day WIMBLEDON, England — At ’s rental house, one recent conversation turned toward Wimbledon’s first week.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2010

This name should not be applied to the last week of Lent, which is properly called Holy Week, or as called by the primitive Christians, the "Great Week."

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James

The so-called "Great Week," or "three days' revolution," had begun.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin