ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ecclesiastical calendar mean? 

• ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR (noun)
  The noun ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR has 1 sense:

1. a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals

  Familiarity information: ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR (noun)

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Meaning:

A calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar

Hypernyms ("ecclesiastical calendar" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (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)

Meronyms (parts of "ecclesiastical calendar"):

Holy Week; Passion Week (the week before Easter)

Advent (the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas)

Shrovetide (immediately preceding Lent)

Lent; Lententide (a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)

Whitsun; Whitsuntide; Whitweek (Christian holiday; the week beginning on Whitsunday (especially the first 3 days))