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MOVABLE FEAST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does movable feast mean?
• MOVABLE FEAST (noun)
The noun MOVABLE FEAST has 1 sense:
1. a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years
Familiarity information: MOVABLE FEAST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
movable feast; moveable feast
Hypernyms ("movable feast" is a kind of...):
feast day; fete day (a day designated for feasting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "movable feast"):
Easter (a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox)
Feast of the Unleavened Bread; Passover; Pesach; Pesah ((Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt)
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