PASSOVER
Dictionary entry overview: What does Passover mean? • PASSOVER (noun)
The noun PASSOVER has 1 sense:
1. (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
Familiarity information: PASSOVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PASSOVER (noun)
Meaning:
(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Feast of the Unleavened Bread; Passover; Pesach; Pesah
Hypernyms ("Passover" is a kind of...):
movable feast; moveable feast (a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years)
Domain category:
Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Passover"):
Pasch; Pascha (the Jewish feast of the Passover)
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