Usually means: Christian celebration of Jesus' resurrection.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word easter:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Easter: Merriam-Webster
  2. Easter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Easter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Easter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Easter, easter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Easter, easter: Wordnik
  7. Easter, easter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Easter, easter: Wiktionary
  9. Easter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Easter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Easter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Easter: Dictionary.com
  13. Easter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. easter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Easter (Asian Kung-Fu Generation song), Easter (Marillion song), Easter (Patti Smith Group album), Easter (These Arms Are Snakes Album), Easter (These Arms Are Snakes album), Easter (disambiguation), Easter (film), Easter (play), Easter (surname), Easter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Easter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. easter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Easter: Rhymezone
  19. Easter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. easter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Easter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. easter: FreeDictionary.org
  23. easter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Easter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. easter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. Easter: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Easter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  4. Easter: Holidays Around the World

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Easter: Easton Bible
  2. Easter: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Easter: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

(Note: See easters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Easter)

noun:  (Christianity)
noun:  A Christian feast commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated on the first Sunday (and Monday) following the full moon that occurs on or next after the vernal equinox, ranging in most of Western Christianity (such as Protestantism and Roman Catholicism) from March 22 to April 25, and in Eastern Christianity (such as the Coptic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church) from April 4 to May 8.
noun:  Eastertide (“the period from Easter to Whitsun”).
noun:  (specifically, Roman Catholicism, dated, now chiefly figuratively) Usually preceded by an inflection of make: the act of receiving the Eucharist during Easter.
noun:  (paganism) A festival held in honour of the goddess Eostre or Ostara, celebrated at the vernal equinox or within the month of April; Eostre, Ostara.
noun:  (obsolete) The Jewish Passover.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  (intransitive) To celebrate Easter.
verb:  (intransitive) To spend the Easter season in some place.
adjective:  (now dialectal) Eastern.
noun:  A strong easterly wind (a wind blowing from the east).
verb:  To move toward the east.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, law, education) Ellipsis of Easter term. [(law) The third term of the legal year, running from April to May, during which the upper courts of England and Wales, and Ireland, sit to hear cases.]

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