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DAY OF ATONEMENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Day of Atonement mean?

• DAY OF ATONEMENT (noun)
The noun DAY OF ATONEMENT has 1 sense:

1. (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

Familiarity information: DAY OF ATONEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

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• DAY OF ATONEMENT (noun)

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Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Day of Atonement; Yom Kippur

Hypernyms ("Day of Atonement" is a kind of...):

major fast day (one of two major fast days on the Jewish calendar)

High Holiday; High Holy Day (Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity)

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

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