Pentecost

Meaning

1. The Jewish festival of Shavuot.
2. The particular day of Pentecost, which in Christian teaching is said to have occurred fifty days (inclusive) after the resurrection of Jesus on the Day of First Fruits, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles with miraculous effects including the ability to explain the Gospel intelligibly in languages they did not know; or a similar occasion since.
3. The Christian festival (also known as Whitsun or Whitsunday), which commemorates the day of Pentecost.
4. Pentecostal manifestation, such as in a church service.
5. A surname.

Concepts

Pentecost

Whitsunday

Whitsun

Feast of Weeks

Shabuoth

Shavous

Shavuot

Shavuoth

Whitsuntide

Trinity Sunday

whitsun

Whit Sunday

Hyphenated as

Pen‧te‧cost

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɛntɪkɔst/

Etymology

From Middle English Pentecoste, from Old English pentecosten, from Ecclesiastical Latin pentēcostē, ultimately from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστή (pentēkostḗ, “fiftieth”) in reference to the number of days. Cognate with pentecoster.

Sentences

The feast ending Pentecost was dedicated to Saint Roch .