Explore Samhain through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Samhain in a sentence
Samhain meaning
A holiday, falling on the night of 31 October to 1 November, celebrated by the ancient Celts and by modern neo-pagans as the beginning of winter and the new year, and a time during which the spirits of the dead could return to the earth.
Using Samhain
- The main meaning on this page is: A holiday, falling on the night of 31 October to 1 November, celebrated by the ancient Celts and by modern neo-pagans as the beginning of winter and the new year, and a time during which the spirits of the dead could return to the earth.
- In the example corpus, samhain often appears in combinations such as: on samhain, of samhain, at samhain.
Context around Samhain
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Samhain
- In this selection, "samhain" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, main, nwa, celtic, ritual, neopagans and main stand out and add context to how "samhain" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include along with samhain imbolc and and among other samhain rituals koper. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "samhain" sits close to words such as abduct, acetylcholine and adeosun, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with samhain
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Also featuring re-worked versions of songs from the first album and a Samhain cover. (15 words)
Halloween originated from a Celtic festival known as Samhain, which took place on November 1st. (15 words)
Celtic festival of Samhain to wearing black and orange, here are the Irish secrets behind the festivities. (17 words)
For VIP, it’s a belated Halloween Celebration as Chris and Justin review the Devil’s Last Dance Ultimate Hardcore Team War match featuring multiple friends of the show from the NWA Samhain PPV and Matt Tremont vs. Krule in a Buried Alive match. (44 words)
The undead Salem’s Seven captured Wanda and, in the dead realm of the demon Samhain, who sought to obtain life through Wanda’s magick and the life she created: her child. (32 words)
Trick-or-treating may have come from the custom of going door-to-door collecting food for Samhain feasts, fuel for Samhain bonfires and/or offerings for the aos sí. (30 words)
Did the early inhabitants living in the territory of what is now Slovakia celebrate Samhain like their Irish cousins? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
Samhain Neopagans honoring the dead as part of a Samhain ritual main Samhain (main -in ) is considered by Wiccans to be one of the four Greater Sabbats.
Trick-or-treating may have come from the custom of going door-to-door collecting food for Samhain feasts, fuel for Samhain bonfires and/or offerings for the aos sí.
Among other Samhain rituals, Koper cooks pumpkin ravioli in brown butter and serves it during a “Dumb Supper,” which is eaten by candlelight without speaking.
Bealtaine marks the beginning of summer and is one of the four major Irish Celtic annual festivals along with Samhain, Imbolc and Lughnasa.
Celtic festival of Samhain to wearing black and orange, here are the Irish secrets behind the festivities.
For VIP, it’s a belated Halloween Celebration as Chris and Justin review the Devil’s Last Dance Ultimate Hardcore Team War match featuring multiple friends of the show from the NWA Samhain PPV and Matt Tremont vs. Krule in a Buried Alive match.
Hundreds of attractions and events have been organised across and the main Samhain festivities commence at 12noon tomorrow, Saturday.
The roots of can be traced back 2,000 years to the Celtic Samhain festival, which celebrated at the end of summer.
Also featuring re-worked versions of songs from the first album and a Samhain cover.
Did the early inhabitants living in the territory of what is now Slovakia celebrate Samhain like their Irish cousins?
The undead Salem’s Seven captured Wanda and, in the dead realm of the demon Samhain, who sought to obtain life through Wanda’s magick and the life she created: her child.
Halloween originated from a Celtic festival known as Samhain, which took place on November 1st.
In that sense, he's likely existed as long as Halloween has been celebrated, and probably even further back to the Pagan festival of Samhain that preceded Halloween's creation.
In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints; soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain.
THE origins of Halloween can be traced all the way back to Pagan times and the Celtic festival of Samhain.
With “Samhain Secrets,” a number of loose ends from previous books were brought together, and in theory the series could have come to a satisfying conclusion.
She focuses her Samhain ritual on spirits she calls the “unnamed dead,” the ones who no longer have anyone to remember them.
As noted earlier, Samhain was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld could more easily be crossed.
At Samhain, it was believed that the Aos Sí needed to be propitiated to ensure that the people and their livestock survived the winter.
Before the modern era Beltane (the beginning of summer) and Samhain (the beginning of winter) are thought to have been the most important of the four Gaelic festivals.
Common combinations with samhain
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- on samhain 7×
- of samhain 5×
- at samhain 4×
- samhain night 4×
- for samhain 3×
- and samhain 3×
- that samhain 3×
- samhain ritual 2×
- main samhain 2×
- with samhain 2×