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MEGILLAH
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Irregular inflected form: megilloth
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Megillah" is a kind of...):
roll; scroll (a document that can be rolled up (as for storage))
Domain category:
Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account
Example:
he insisted on giving us the whole megillah
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("megillah" is a kind of...):
account; report (the act of informing by verbal report)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
