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Webster 1913 Edition
Pentecoster
Penˊte-cos′ter
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] fifty.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
Mitford.
Definition 2024
pentecoster
pentecoster
English
Noun
pentecoster (plural pentecosters)
- (historical, Ancient Greece) An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
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