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ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ecclesiastical calendar mean?
• ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR (noun)
The noun ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR has 1 sense:
1. a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals
Familiarity information: ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar
Hypernyms ("ecclesiastical calendar" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
Meronyms (parts of "ecclesiastical calendar"):
Holy Week; Passion Week (the week before Easter)
Advent (the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas)
Shrovetide (immediately preceding Lent)
Lent; Lententide (a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
Whitsun; Whitsuntide; Whitweek (Christian holiday; the week beginning on Whitsunday (especially the first 3 days))
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