Meanings
nounFirst Communion (plural First Communions)
plural First Communions
- CatholicismThe first time that a person, usually a child, receives the sacrament of Communion.
It is with the day of her first communion that this narrative of mine begins.
1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 234 - CatholicismThe celebration of the former, consisting of a solemn mass and generally a following private party.
Translations
German Erstkommunion, Kommunion
- Erstkommunionfirst time that a person receives the sacrament of Communion
- Kommunionfirst time that a person receives the sacrament of Communion
- Erstkommunioncelebration consisting of a mass and a party
- Erstkommunionfeiercelebration consisting of a mass and a party
- Kommunioncelebration consisting of a mass and a party
Hungarian elsőáldozás
- elsőáldozásfirst time that a person receives the sacrament of Communion
Polish komunia, pierwsza komunia
- komuniafirst time that a person receives the sacrament of Communion
- pierwsza komuniafirst time that a person receives the sacrament of Communion
- komuniacelebration consisting of a mass and a party
- pierwsza komuniacelebration consisting of a mass and a party
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APA
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Chicago
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