The word 'easter' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when talking about the Christian holiday of the same name that is celebrated in early spring. Example sentence: We are going to dye eggs and have an Easter egg hunt this year for the Easter holiday.
Some people hide Easter eggs on Easter Sunday.
David Cameron will doubtless depart from his political career next month with the bare minimum of a few lucrative company directorships and a kiss-and-tell book deal, so long as that police horse, Raisa and the lamb he cuddled at Easter can be persuaded to ditch their own competing publications, both currently being ghostwritten from audiotapes by the Financial Times's Ben Thompson.
Just before Easter, News Corp Australia reached a confidential settlement with the human rights lawyer George Newhouse over an allegedly defamatory article by its star columnist and host of Ten's The Bolt Report, Andrew Bolt.
They will point out that, again and again, the men who seized Dublin's GPO on Easter Monday 95 years ago did not represent majority opinion in Ireland.
The Garden of Remembrance commemorates those who died in the 1916 Easter Rising and later the War of Independence against the British.
David Cameron has used an Easter message to hit back at criticism of the coalition's policies from church leaders, urging them not to dismiss him as "devoid of morality".
In a pre-Easter message, Villiers also pledged that there would be no amnesties for any more "on the run" IRA members after the freeing of the IRA Hyde Park bomb suspect John Downey due to a "comfort letter" from Tony Blair's government assuring him and others they would not prosecuted for past crimes.
"If Santa isn't real, then neither is the Easter Bunny," I gasped, while my parents tried to stop my heroic whistleblowing.
But, just two days after polling from Lord Ashcroft put Clegg two points behind Labour in the constituency, the visit also marked the beginning of a long Easter weekend of hard canvassing for the Liberal Democrat leader.
As no one at Easter Road needs reminding, 1902 was the last year the Scottish Cup was won by Hibs.
