JEWISH CALENDAR
Dictionary entry overview: What does Jewish calendar mean?
• JEWISH CALENDAR (noun)
The noun JEWISH CALENDAR has 1 sense:
1. (Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years
Familiarity information: JEWISH CALENDAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• JEWISH CALENDAR (noun)
Meaning:
(Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Hebrew calendar; Jewish calendar
Hypernyms ("Jewish calendar" is a kind of...):
lunisolar calendar (a calendar based on both lunar and solar cycles)
Meronyms (parts of "Jewish calendar"):
Ellul; Elul (the twelfth month of the civil year; the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in August and September))
Ab; Av (the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and August))
Tammuz; Thammuz (the tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the ecclesiastic year (in June and July))
Sivan; Siwan (the ninth month of the civil year; the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in May and June))
Iyar; Iyyar (the eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May))
Nisan; Nissan (the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April))
Adar Sheni; Veadar (included seven times in every 19 years)
Adar (the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and March))
Shebat; Shevat (the fifth month of the civil year: the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in January and February))
Tebet; Tevet (the fourth month of the civil year; the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year (in December and January))
Chislev; Kislev (the third month of the civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in November and December))
Heshvan (the second month of the civil year; the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in October and November))
Tishri (the first month of the civil year; the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in September and October))
Jewish calendar month (a month in the Jewish calendar)
Domain category:
Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)
