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JUBILEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jubilee mean? 

JUBILEE (noun)
  The noun JUBILEE has 1 sense:

1. a special anniversary (or the celebration of it)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


JUBILEE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A special anniversary (or the celebration of it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

anniversary; day of remembrance (the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it))

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

diamond jubilee (an anniversary celebrating the passage of 60 years)

silver jubilee (an anniversary celebrating the passage of 25 years)

Derivation:

jubilate (celebrate a jubilee)


 Context examples 


Won't Laurie laugh? cried the family, all in one breath as they clustered about Jo, for these foolish, affectionate people made a jubilee of every little household joy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A beggar-woman and her little boy—pale, ragged objects both—were coming up the walk, and I ran down and gave them all the money I happened to have in my purse—some three or four shillings: good or bad, they must partake of my jubilee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Of course there was a great jubilee, and when the story came everyone read and praised it, though after her father had told her that the language was good, the romance fresh and hearty, and the tragedy quite thrilling, he shook his head, and said in his unworldly way...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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