| NOUN | time | ecclesiastical calendar, church calendar | a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals |
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| Meaning | A calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals. | |
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| Synonym | church calendar | |
| Parts | Advent | The season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas |
| Holy Week, Passion Week | The week before Easter | |
| Lent, Lententide | A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday | |
| Shrovetide | immediately preceding Lent | |
| Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whitweek | Christian holiday | |
| Broader | Gregorian calendar, New Style calendar | The solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years |
| Spanish | calendario eclesial | |
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