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FEAST OF TABERNACLES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
Feast of Booths; Feast of Tabernacles; Succos; Succoth; Sukkoth; Tabernacles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
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))
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