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FEAST OF TABERNACLES

• FEAST OF TABERNACLES (noun)
The noun FEAST OF TABERNACLES has 1 sense:

1. 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

Familiarity information: FEAST OF TABERNACLES used as a noun is very rare.

• FEAST OF TABERNACLES (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Feast of Booths; Feast of Tabernacles; Succos; Succoth; Sukkoth; Tabernacles

Hypernyms ("Feast of Tabernacles" is a kind of...):

church festival; religious festival (a festival having religious significance)

Jewish holy day (a religious holiday for Jews)

Domain category:

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

Holonyms ("Feast of Tabernacles" is a part of...):

Tishri (the first month of the civil year; the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in September and October))

"There's more than one way to skin a cat."
(English proverb)
"To give happiness to another person gives such a great merit, it cannot even be carried by a horse."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"Birds of a feather flock together."
(Arabic proverb)
"God's mills mill slowly, but surely."
(Czech proverb)

Useful links:
Pronunciation of Jewish holy day
Meaning of Judaism
Pronunciation of religious festival
Meaning of church festival
Meaning of Tishri

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