MEGILLAH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: megilloth

Meaning:

(Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Megillah" is a kind of...):

roll; scroll (a document that can be rolled up (as for storage))

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

Meaning:

(Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account

Example:

he insisted on giving us the whole megillah

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("megillah" is a kind of...):

account; report (the act of informing by verbal report)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)