easter

Other forms of easter

plural

easters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about easter

What does easter mean?

easter means "a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in easter?

easter has 2 syllables: ea-ster. The stress falls on "ea". In IPA it is /ˈistɚ/.

What is another word for easter?

Close synonyms include east wind, easterly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is easter a common word?

easter is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.