Usually means: Ancient Celtic festival welcoming winter.
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  1. Samhain, Samhain: Merriam-Webster
  2. Samhain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Samhain: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. Samhain: Wiktionary
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  8. Samhain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Samhain (band), Samhain (disambiguation), Samhain (magazine), Samhain (software), Samhain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Samhain)

noun:  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.

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