MAJOR FAST DAY

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Meaning:

One of two major fast days on the Jewish calendar

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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("major fast day" is a kind of...):

fast day (a day designated for fasting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "major fast day"):

Day of Atonement; Yom Kippur ((Judaism) a solemn and major fast day on the Jewish calendar; 10th of Tishri; its observance is one of the requirements of the Mosaic law)

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)

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