maundy thursday

1. 1.

   the Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper

   SynonymsHoly Thursday

   BroaderChristian holy day

Questions about maundy thursday

What does maundy thursday mean?

maundy thursday means "the Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper".

What is another word for maundy thursday?

Close synonyms include Holy Thursday. 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 maundy thursday a common word?

maundy thursday is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.