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MAJOR FAST DAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of two major fast days on the Jewish calendar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("major fast day" is a kind of...):
fast day (a day designated for fasting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "major fast day"):
Day of Atonement; Yom Kippur ((Judaism) a solemn and major fast day on the Jewish calendar; 10th of Tishri; its observance is one of the requirements of the Mosaic law)
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)
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