JEWISH HOLY DAY

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Meaning:

A religious holiday for Jews

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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("Jewish holy day" is a kind of...):

holy day; religious holiday (a day specified for religious observance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Jewish holy day"):

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

Rosh Chodesh; Rosh Hodesh ((Judaism) the beginning of each month in the Jewish calendar; marked by a special liturgy)

High Holiday; High Holy Day (Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity)

Purim ((Judaism) a Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman)

Feast of Weeks; Pentecost; Shabuoth; Shavous; Shavuot; Shavuoth ((Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments)

Rejoicing in the Law; Rejoicing of the Law; Rejoicing over the Law; Shimchath Torah; Simchas Torah; Simchat Torah; Simhat Torah; Simhath Torah ((Judaism) a Jewish holy day celebrated on the 22nd or 23rd of Tishri to celebrate the completion of the annual cycle of readings of the Torah)

Fast of Ab; Fast of Av; Ninth of Ab; Ninth of Av; Tisha b'Ab; Tisha b'Av; Tishah b'Ab; Tishah b'Av ((Judaism) a major fast day on the Jewish calendar commemorating the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem)

Lag b'Omer ((Judaism) Jewish holy day; the 33rd day after the 2nd day of Passover; the 18th day of Iyar)