"Easter Day" meaning in English

See Easter Day in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Easter Day}} Easter Day
  1. Easter Sunday, the Christian holiday commemorating the Resurrection. Wikidata QID: Q21196 Related terms: empty as the tomb on Easter Translations (Easter Day): Великден (Velikden) [masculine] (Bulgarian), pääsiäispäivä (Finnish), día de Pascua [masculine] (Galician), Ostertag [masculine] (German), påskedag (Norwegian), Niedziela Wielkanocna [feminine] (Polish), påskdag [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Easter_Day-en-name-en:Q21196 Categories (other): Easter Disambiguation of Easter: 88 12 Disambiguation of 'Easter Day': 71 29
  2. The day that that holiday commemorates: the day (circa AD 33) when Jesus's friends found the Holy Sepulchre to be unexpectedly empty.
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