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ADAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and March)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Adar" is a kind of...):
Jewish calendar month (a month in the Jewish calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Adar"):
Purim ((Judaism) a Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman)
Holonyms ("Adar" is a part of...):
Hebrew calendar; Jewish calendar ((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)
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