JUDAS MACCABAEUS

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• JUDAS MACCABAEUS (noun)
  The noun JUDAS MACCABAEUS has 1 sense:

1. Jewish leader of a revolt in Judea that recovered Jerusalem around 166 BC; hero of the Apocryphal books I Maccabees and II Maccabees (?-161 BC)

  Familiarity information: JUDAS MACCABAEUS used as a noun is very rare.

• JUDAS MACCABAEUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Jewish leader of a revolt in Judea that recovered Jerusalem around 166 BC; hero of the Apocryphal books I Maccabees and II Maccabees (?-161 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

 Context examples 

The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)