all saints' day
1All Saints' Day — • Celebrated on the first of November. Instituted to honour all the saints, known and unknown, and, according to Urban IV, to supply any deficiencies in the faithful s celebration of saints feasts during the year Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …
2All Saints' Day — also All Hallows Day 1 November, when Christian churches remember all the ↑saints …
3All Saints' Day — All′ Saints ′ Day n. rel a church festival celebrated Nov. 1 in honor of all the saints; Allhallows • Etymology: 1570–80 …
4All Saints' Day — ► NOUN ▪ a Christian festival in honour of all the saints, held (in the Western Church) on 1 November …
5All Saints' Day — n. an annual church festival (Nov. 1) in honor of all the saints …
6All Saints' Day — noun a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835 • Syn: ↑Allhallows, ↑November 1, ↑Hallowmas, ↑Hallowmass • Hypernyms: ↑holy day of obligation • Part Holonyms: ↑ …
7All Saints' Day — a church festival celebrated November 1 in honor of all the saints; Allhallows. [1570 80] * * * In Christianity, a day commemorating all the saints of the church, known and unknown. It is celebrated on November 1 in the Western churches and on… …
8All Saints' Day — (1 November) Germany and England began celebrating a feast of all martyrs and saints on 1 November in the 8th century, instead of on 13 May, as was done in Rome; eventually the rest of Western Christendom also adopted the November date.… …
9all-saints' day — All Hallow, All Hallows, All Hallowmas, Hallowmas, the first of November, All Saints …
10All Saints' Day — noun In Christian tradition, the annual feast day celebrating the life of all saints on the first day of November. Syn: All Hallows Day …
