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PASSION WEEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Passion Week mean? 

PASSION WEEK (noun)
  The noun PASSION WEEK has 1 sense:

1. the week before Easterplay

  Familiarity information: PASSION WEEK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PASSION WEEK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The week before Easter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Holy Week; Passion Week

Hypernyms ("Passion Week" is a kind of...):

hebdomad; week (any period of seven consecutive days)

Holonyms ("Passion Week" is a part of...):

church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar (a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals)


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