HOLY WEEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Holy Week mean? 

• HOLY WEEK (noun)
  The noun HOLY WEEK has 1 sense:

1. the week before Easter

  Familiarity information: HOLY WEEK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLY WEEK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The week before Easter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Holy Week; Passion Week

Hypernyms ("Holy Week" is a kind of...):

hebdomad; week (any period of seven consecutive days)

Holonyms ("Holy Week" is a part of...):

church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar (a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals)