KARAITES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Karaites mean? 

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

1. a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KARAITES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

religious order; religious sect; sect (a subdivision of a larger religious group)