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FEAST OF WEEKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Feast of Weeks mean? 

FEAST OF WEEKS (noun)
  The noun FEAST OF WEEKS has 1 sense:

1. (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandmentsplay

  Familiarity information: FEAST OF WEEKS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FEAST OF WEEKS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Feast of Weeks; Pentecost; Shabuoth; Shavous; Shavuot; Shavuoth

Hypernyms ("Feast of Weeks" is a kind of...):

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)


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