pentecost   (TTS Sound)

The noun pentecost has 2 senses

• Pentecost, Whitsunday -- (seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles; a quarter day in Scotland)


• Shavous, Shabuoth, Shavuoth, Shavuot, Pentecost, Feast of Weeks -- ((Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments)