HOLY YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Holy Year mean? 

• HOLY YEAR (noun)
  The noun HOLY YEAR has 1 sense:

1. (Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from sin (usually granted every 25 years)

  Familiarity information: HOLY YEAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLY YEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from sin (usually granted every 25 years)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("Holy Year" is a kind of...):

twelvemonth; year; yr (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)