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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 Commandments
Familiarity information: FEAST OF WEEKS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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