Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun easter
2 senses of easter
Sense 1
Easter -- (a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox)
=> movable feast, moveable feast -- (a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years)
Sense 2
east wind, easter, easterly -- (a wind from the east)
=> wind, air current, current of air -- (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere")