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Meaning of word pentecost from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

pentecost noun

Meaning : Seventh Sunday after Easter. Commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles. A quarter day in Scotland.

Synonyms : whitsunday

Meaning : (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.

Synonyms : feast of weeks, shabuoth, shavous, shavuot, shavuoth

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Benefit.

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A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.

palatalised (adjective)
Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin').

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An act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly).

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Either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits.

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