shrove tuesday

1. 1.

   the last day before Lent

   SynonymsMardi GrasFat Tuesdaypancake day

   BroaderChristian holy day

   Part ofShrovetide

Questions about shrove tuesday

What does shrove tuesday mean?

shrove tuesday means "the last day before Lent".

What is another word for shrove tuesday?

Close synonyms include Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, pancake day. 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 shrove tuesday a common word?

shrove tuesday 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.