Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A religious holiday, such as Easter, that changes in date from year to year.
Wiktionary
- n. a day of note, frequently Christian, the date of which moves from year to year according to a set of rules.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Ecclesiastical) a holy day that changes date, depending on the lunar cycle. An example of such a day is Easter.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘movable feast’.
-
Copeaux of Random Palavery
More randomly selected words to add to my various lists of "Random Palavery". "Copeaux" in the sense of bits, bobs, chips, fragments, pieces. Don't ask why my Random Palavery lists consist of 151...
deshoot, land cress, american cress, bank cress, belle isle cress, bermuda cress, early yellowrocket, early wintercress, scurvy cress, locust valley loc..., massively multipl..., local fluff and 139 more...
-
miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
-
scientific
industrial melanism, movable feast, schrödinger's cat, boustrophedon, vibrissae, cantle, estivation, williwaw
Tweets
Looking for tweets for movable feast.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.