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CHRISTIAN YEAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons
Synonyms:
Christian year; church year
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Christian year" is a kind of...):
twelvemonth; year; yr (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days)
Meronyms (parts of "Christian year"):
holy day; religious holiday (a day specified for religious observance)
saint's day (a day commemorating a saint)