Whitsunとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Apocopic form of Whitsunday.

発音

• enPR: wĭtʹsən, hwĭtʹsən, IPA: /ˈwɪt.sən/, /ˈʍɪt.sən/

名詞

Whitsun (plural Whitsuns)

1. Whitsunday.
   • 1909, Sidney Heath, Romance of Symbolism: Fonts and the symbols of baptism - The times [for baptism] of which Whitsun Eve is one, are specified by ... the constitutions for Orthobon for England, Gerona, 517, c. iv.
2. The holiday beginning on Whitsunday.

   Synonyms: Whitweek, Whitsuntide, Pentecost

   • 1978, Peter Bailey, Leisure and class in Victorian England: Rational recreation and the contest for control, quoting "a British observation from early 20th century", read in Orvar Löfgren, On Holiday: A History of Vacationing (2002) - The excursion train used to vomit forth, at Easter and in Whitsun week, throngs of millhands of the period, cads and their flames, tawdry, blowsy, noisy, drunken.

派生語

形容詞

Whitsun (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to Whitsunday or Whitsuntide

アナグラム

• Swithun