Whitsunday

Meanings

1. The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.
2. A quarter day falling on 15th May.

1. A local government area in northern Queensland, Australia; in full, Whitsunday Region.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Whitsonday, from whit (“white”) + Sonday (“Sunday”), from Old English hwīt sunnandæg, probably from the white clothes worn by newly baptized Christians as Pentecost was a traditional date of baptism in early medieval England. Doublet of White Sunday.