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Definition of fast day in English: fast daynoun A day when one abstains from all or some kinds of food or drink, especially as a religious observance. the Greek Orthodox calendar has many feast days, fast days, and name days Example sentencesExamples - A religious man attends church, observes feast days and fast days.
- Many monasteries had fish-pools attached to give plentiful supplies for fast days.
- Judaism's most famous fast day is Yom Kippur, when followers abstain from food and water from sundown to sundown.
- On a fast day, drink water.
- We each keep our religion, observe each other's holidays and fast days.
- The Day of Atonement, a fast day, is probably the most important day in the Jewish year.
- Indeed, Christians had their own fast day on a more regular basis, with the Church's ban on the consumption of meat on Fridays.
- From Moscow to St. Petersberg, Russians celebrate Butter Week just before their Lent fast days.
- In Jewish consciousness, a fast day is a time of reckoning, a time to correct a previous mistake.
- Until well into the 20th century fish appeared on most dinner plates on the fast days of Wednesday and Friday, and during Lent.
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