whitsuntide

Other forms of whitsuntide

plural

whitsuntides·

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 whitsuntide

What does whitsuntide mean?

whitsuntide means "Christian holiday; the week beginning on Whitsunday (especially the first 3 days)".

How many syllables are in whitsuntide?

whitsuntide has 3 syllables: whit-sun-tide. The stress falls on "whit".

What is another word for whitsuntide?

Close synonyms include Whitsun, Whitweek. 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 whitsuntide a common word?

whitsuntide 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.