MEGILLAH (megilloth)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: megilloth   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Megillah mean? 

• MEGILLAH (noun)
  The noun MEGILLAH has 2 senses:

1. (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account

2. (Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim

  Familiarity information: MEGILLAH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEGILLAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he insisted on giving us the whole megillah

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

account; report (the act of informing by verbal report)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

roll; scroll (a document that can be rolled up (as for storage))

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)