MOVEABLE FEAST

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years

Synonyms:

movable feast; moveable feast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("moveable feast" is a kind of...):

feast day; fete day (a day designated for feasting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moveable feast"):

Easter (a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox)

Feast of the Unleavened Bread; Passover; Pesach; Pesah ((Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt)