quinquagesima sunday

1. 1.

   the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent)

   SynonymsQuinquagesima

   BroaderChristian holy day

Questions about quinquagesima sunday

What does quinquagesima sunday mean?

quinquagesima sunday means "the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent)".

What is another word for quinquagesima sunday?

Close synonyms include Quinquagesima. 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 quinquagesima sunday a common word?

quinquagesima sunday 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.