feast of dormition is a noun meaning "celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church and is also celebrated on August 15th". It carries one recorded sense.
celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church and is also celebrated on August 15th
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for feast of dormition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.