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Easter is the Sunday each year that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus with special church services and meals as well as a more secular celebration with Easter baskets filled with candy, delivered by an Easter bunny. (proper noun)

An example of Easter is a day where you can go to a sunrise church service and carry white lilies.

See Easter in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an annual Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, held on the first Sunday after the date of the first full moon that occurs on or after March 21
the Sunday of this festival
also Easter Sunday

See Easter in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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noun

A Christian feast commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus.
The day on which this feast is observed, the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or next after the vernal equinox.
Eastertide.

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