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Whitsun

[ hwit-suhn, wit- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Whitsunday or Whitsuntide.


noun

  1. Whitsunday or Whitsuntide.

Whitsun

/ ˈwɪtsən /

noun

  1. short for Whitsuntide
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of or relating to Whit Sunday or Whitsuntide
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Whitsun1

1250–1300; Middle English Whitsone ( n ), shortening of whitsonenday (by analysis as whitsonen-day ); Whitsunday
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Example Sentences

Some two years later, during the Whitsun holiday, I had taken one of my daughters to the cinema and arrived home about 10.30pm.

A May-pole was an abomination equalled only in atrocity by a "Whitsun-ale" or a "Morris-dance."

Two Whitsun-eves running it had caught fire and burned to the ground.

During the Whitsun festival carriages are scarcely to be procured in the whole of Montenegro, or in Cattaro either.

Prominent amongst all the youths stood the Whitsun King of the year before.

Then, my beloved little brother, are you not aware that to-day is red Whitsun Day?

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