RAMADAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ramadan mean? 

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

1. the ninth month of the Islamic calendar; the month of fasting; the holiest period for the Islamic faith

2. (Islam) a fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan

  Familiarity information: RAMADAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAMADAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ninth month of the Islamic calendar; the month of fasting; the holiest period for the Islamic faith

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

Islamic calendar month (any lunar month in the Muslim calendar)

Holonyms ("Ramadan" is a part of...):

Islamic calendar; Mohammedan calendar; Moslem calendar; Muhammadan calendar; Muslim calendar (the lunar calendar used by Muslims; dates from 622 AD (the year of the Hegira); the beginning of the Muslim year retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle every 32 years)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Islam) a fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

fast; fasting (abstaining from food)

Domain category:

Islam; Islamism; Mohammedanism; Muhammadanism; Muslimism (the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran)