Usually means: Festival celebrating spring and fertility.
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  1. Beltane: Merriam-Webster
  2. Beltane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Beltane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Beltane: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Beltane: Wordnik
  6. Beltane: Wiktionary
  7. Beltane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Beltane: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Beltane: Dictionary.com
  10. Beltane: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Beltane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Beltane: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. beltane: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Beltane: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. beltane: FreeDictionary.org
  16. Beltane: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Beltane: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. beltane: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  19. Beltane: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Beltane: Encyclopedia

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  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

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  1. Beltane: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Beltane)

noun:  The first day of May (since 1752); May Day, a Scottish quarter day, sometimes associated by Christians with the nearest Church Feast, the Invention of the Cross (3 May), and Whitsunday (15 May).
noun:  An ancient Gaelic/Celtic May Day holiday celebration, at which large bonfires were built on the hilltops, revived by Celtic neopagans.

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