PASSOVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Passover mean? 

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

1. (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSOVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Feast of the Unleavened Bread; Passover; Pesach; Pesah

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

movable feast; moveable feast (a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years)

Domain category:

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

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

Pasch; Pascha (the Jewish feast of the Passover)