Easter (disambiguation)

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Easter is a Christian and cultural spring festival.

Easter may also refer to:

• Easter customs, cultural traditions and practices that take place during the above festival
• Eastertide, a fifty-day season in some Christian traditions
• Ēostre, the pagan equinox (hence, "East") festival from which the Christian festival takes its name in English and in other Germanic languages
• (Archaic) Passover the Jewish Passover had been called "Easter", e.g., in Acts 12:4 in the KJV

Music

• Easter (Patti Smith Group album), 1978, or the title track
• Easter (These Arms Are Snakes album), 2006
• "Easter" (Marillion song), 1990
• "Easter", a song by Jefferson Airplane from Long John Silver
• "Easter", a song by Love Battery from Between the Eyes

Literature

• Easter (play), a 1901 play by August Strindberg
• "Easter, 1916", a poem by William Butler Yeats

Other uses

• Easter (film), a 2002 independent film
• Easter (surname)

See also

• Easter Island, Chile
• Easter Rock, Wisconsin
• Ēostre, West Germanic goddess