HESHVAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heshvan mean? 

• HESHVAN (noun)
  The noun HESHVAN has 1 sense:

1. the second month of the civil year; the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in October and November)

  Familiarity information: HESHVAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HESHVAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second month of the civil year; the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in October and November)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

Jewish calendar month (a month in the Jewish calendar)

Holonyms ("Heshvan" is a part of...):

Hebrew calendar; Jewish calendar ((Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years)