Whit Monday

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• Whit Monday — noun The Monday following Whitsunday • • • Main Entry: ↑Whit * * * Whit Monday [Whit Monday] the day after ↑Whit Sunday. It used to be a ↑bank holiday in Britain. In the 1960s it was replaced by the ↑Spring Bank Holiday …   Useful english dictionary

• Whit Monday — Whit Mon|day the day after Whit Sunday, which used to be a public holiday in the UK. There is now a holiday around the same time called the Spring Bank Holiday , but it is not always on Whit Monday …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Whit Monday — Medieval Russian icon of the Old Testament Trinity by Andrei Rublev, used as the icon of the feast for Whit Monday …   Wikipedia

• Whit Monday — the day after Whit Sunday. It used to be a bank holiday in Britain. In the 1960s it was replaced by the Spring Bank Holiday, which some people still call Whit Monday. * * * …   Universalium

• Whit — Sunday (or Pentecost) is the seventh Sunday after Easter, and Whit Monday is the day following Whit Sunday. Whitsun and Whit are regularly used as informal shortenings of Whitsuntide, the weekend including Whit Sunday. Whit is related in form to… …   Modern English usage

• Monday — For other uses, see Monday (disambiguation). Galileo s 1616 drawings of the Moon and its phases. Monday is named after the Moon in many languages. Monday ( …   Wikipedia

• whit — [[t](h)wɪ̱t[/t]] 1) PHRASE: with neg, PHR after v (emphasis) You say not a whit or not one whit to emphasize that something is not the case at all. [mainly FORMAL or OLD FASHIONED] He cared not a whit for the social, political or moral aspects of …   English dictionary

• whit — adj. connected with, belonging to, or following Whit Sunday (Whit Monday; Whit weekend). Phrases and idioms: Whit Sunday the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2). Etymology: OE Hwita… …   Useful english dictionary

• Whit Watson — (born 1971) is a sportscaster for Sun Sports, the Florida based regional cable network owned and operated by Fox Television. He joined the network in August 2003 after nearly seven years at ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut. At ESPN, Watson hosted a… …   Wikipedia

• Whit Tuesday — (syn. Pentecost Tuesday, Whitsun Tuesday) is the Christian holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost Monday, the third day of the week beginning on Pentecost. Pentecost is a movable feast in the Christian calendar, being dependent upon the date… …   Wikipedia

• Whit|mon|day — «HWIHT MUHN dee, day», noun. the Monday after Whitsunday, a bank holiday in England …   Useful english dictionary