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With regards to the history, Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is an Irishman and his country apostle. he was born in Roman Britain, kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at the age of 16. He later escaped, but returned to Ireland and was called upon to bring Christianity to the people.
Today, people of all backgrounds celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, especially throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. Although North America is home to the largest productions, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated around the world in locations far from Ireland, including Japan, Singapore and Russia.
St. Patrick’s Day Vocabulary Words
Following are common vocabulary words and phrases related to St. Patrick’s day along with their explanation:
- Belfast: The capital and largest city of Northern Ireland
- Best: Of the most excellent or desirable type or quality.
- Blarney Stone: A stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney
- Blesses: Of the most excellent or desirable type or quality.
- Celebratory: Used or intended to publicly acknowledge a significant or happy day or event
- Cheerful: Causing happiness by its nature or appearance
- Colcannon: An Irish dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage, seasoned with butter
- Delightful: Causing happiness by its nature or appearance
- Drunk: Affected by alcohol to the extent of losing control of one’s faculties or behavior
- Dublin: The capital and largest city of Ireland, in the east-central part of the country on the Irish Sea
- Emerald: A brilliant green to grass-green transparent variety of beryl, used as a gemstone
- Enjoyable: Affected by alcohol to the extent of losing control of one’s faculties or behavior
- Fantastic: Extraordinarily good or attractive
- Festive: Relating to a festival, especially Christmas
- Forever: For all future time; for always
- Four–Leaf Clover: A clover leaf with four leaves instead of the typical three. They are thought to bring good luck.
- Genuine: For all future time; for always
- Gold: Soft, yellow, corrosion-resistant element, the most malleable and ductile metal, occurring in veins and alluvial deposits and recovered by mining or by panning or sluicing. A good thermal and electrical conductor, gold is generally alloyed to increase its strength, and it is used as an international monetary standard, in jewelry, for decoration, and as a plated coating on a wide variety of electrical and mechanical components
- Great: Of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above average
- Green: Colored like grass or emeralds.
- Happiest: Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
- Harp: A triangular-shaped musical instrument that has many parallel strings that are plucked to make sound.
- Irish: Of or related to Ireland or its people, language, or culture
- Joyful: Feeling, expressing, or causing great pleasure and happiness
- Legendary: Remarkable enough to be famous; very well known.
- Leprechaun: One of a race of elves in Irish folklore who can reveal hidden treasure to those who catch them
- Luck: The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events
- Magical: Beautiful or delightful in a way that seems removed from everyday life.
- Memorable: Worth remembering or easily remembered, especially because of being special or unusual
- Merry: Cheerful and lively.
- Mighty: Possessing great and impressive power or strength
- New: Already existing but seen, experienced, or acquired recently or now for the first time
- Parade: An organized public procession on a festive or ceremonial occasion
- Pinch: When you squeeze someone’s skin between your index finger and thumb
- Pot Of Gold: A large but distant or imaginary reward. It is said that there is a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
- Potato: A starchy vegetable that grows in the ground. It is a common part of irish meals
- Proud: Feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one’s own achievements
- Rainbow: An arc of spectral colors, usually identified as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, that appears in the sky opposite the sun as a result of the refractive dispersion of sunlight in drops of rain or mist
- Rocking: Full of excitement or social activity
- Safe: Cautious and unenterprising
- Saint: A person officially recognized, especially by canonization, as being entitled to public veneration and capable of interceding for people on earth
- Shamrock: A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish.
- Shillelagh: A thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland, typically as a weapon
- Snake: A long reptile without legs; serpent
- Social: Relating to society or its organization.
- Special: Belonging specifically to a particular person or place
- St. Patrick: A patron saint of Ireland; an English missionary to Ireland in the 5th century
- Tradition: The transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation
- Warm: Having or showing enthusiasm, affection, or kindness.
- Wee: Little
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