church calendar
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1. a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals (noun.time)
| hypernym | : | gregorian calendar, new style calendar, |
| definition | : | the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752 (noun.time) |
| part holonym | : | advent, |
| definition | : | the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas (noun.time) |
| part holonym | : | shrovetide, |
| definition | : | immediately preceding Lent (noun.time) |
| part holonym | : | lent, lententide, |
| definition | : | a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (noun.time) |
| part holonym | : | whitsun, whitsuntide, whitweek, |
| definition | : | Christian holiday; the week beginning on Whitsunday (especially the first 3 days) (noun.time) |
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