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JEWISH HOLY DAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A religious holiday for Jews
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Jewish holy day" is a kind of...):
holy day; religious holiday (a day specified for religious observance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Jewish holy day"):
Feast of Booths; Feast of Tabernacles; Succos; Succoth; Sukkoth; Tabernacles (a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness)
Rosh Chodesh; Rosh Hodesh ((Judaism) the beginning of each month in the Jewish calendar; marked by a special liturgy)
High Holiday; High Holy Day (Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity)
Purim ((Judaism) a Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman)
Feast of Weeks; Pentecost; Shabuoth; Shavous; Shavuot; Shavuoth ((Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments)
Rejoicing in the Law; Rejoicing of the Law; Rejoicing over the Law; Shimchath Torah; Simchas Torah; Simchat Torah; Simhat Torah; Simhath Torah ((Judaism) a Jewish holy day celebrated on the 22nd or 23rd of Tishri to celebrate the completion of the annual cycle of readings of the Torah)
Fast of Ab; Fast of Av; Ninth of Ab; Ninth of Av; Tisha b'Ab; Tisha b'Av; Tishah b'Ab; Tishah b'Av ((Judaism) a major fast day on the Jewish calendar commemorating the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem)
Channukah; Channukkah; Chanukah; Chanukkah; Feast of Dedication; Feast of Lights; Feast of the Dedication; Festival of Lights; Hannukah; Hanukah; Hanukkah ((Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC)
Lag b'Omer ((Judaism) Jewish holy day; the 33rd day after the 2nd day of Passover; the 18th day of Iyar)
