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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter);
[syn: Septuagesima, Septuagesima Sunday]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Septuagesima \Sep`tu*a*ges"i*ma\, n. [NL., fr. L. septuagesimus
   the seventieth, fr. septuaginta seventy.] (Eccl.)
   The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is
   about seventy days before Easter.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Septuagesima
    n 1: the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter) [syn:
         Septuagesima, Septuagesima Sunday]