Whitsun

== English == === Etymology === Apocopic form of Whitsunday. === Pronunciation === enPR: wĭtʹsən, hwĭtʹsən, IPA(key): /ˈwɪt.sən/, /ˈʍɪt.sən/ === Noun === Whitsun (plural Whitsuns) Whitsunday. 1909, Sidney Heath, Romance of Symbolism: Fonts and the symbols of baptism - The times [for baptism] of which Whitsun Eve is one, are specified by ... the constitutions for Orthobon for England, Gerona, 517, c. iv. The holiday beginning on Whitsunday. Synonyms: Whitweek, Whitsuntide, Pentecost 1978, Peter Bailey, Leisure and class in Victorian England: Rational recreation and the contest for control, quoting "a British observation from early 20th century", read in Orvar Löfgren, On Holiday: A History of Vacationing (2002) - The excursion train used to vomit forth, at Easter and in Whitsun week, throngs of millhands of the period, cads and their flames, tawdry, blowsy, noisy, drunken. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === Whitsun (not comparable) Of, or relating to Whitsunday or Whitsuntide === Anagrams === Swithun