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Pasch

American  
[pask] / pæsk /

noun

  1. the Jewish festival of Passover.

  2. Easter.


Pasch British  
/ pɑːsk, pæsk /

noun

  1. an archaic name for Passover Easter

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Etymology

Origin of Pasch

before 1150; Middle English, Old English < Late Latin Pascha < Greek Páscha < Aramaic: Passover; compare Hebrew Pesaḥ Pesach

Example Sentences

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Walton and fellow broadcaster Dave Pasch used the segue of legendary Bruin center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s No. 33 jersey to mention that Timiraos had just turned 33.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2025

Pasch: “I heard that you were in the running for that, that you were being considered to play the role. I’m being dead serious.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024

“We were all working together to help Ashton not get injured,” Pasch said.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022

Pasch: “I’m still trying to figure that out. I guess to make it through the next three days with one of us surviving.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2019

Pasch for his mark hath the Resurrection: Ayenst Hally-Thursday is pented Chraist's ascension: Thus in mayn own buke ay is a gude clerk; But gif the sents war gone, the cat had eat my mark.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew