SABBATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sabbath mean? 

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

1. a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SABBATH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

day of rest; rest day (a day set aside for rest)

Derivation:

Sabbatarian (pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance)

sabbatical (of or relating to the Sabbath)

 Context examples 

“With as much beer as you can put away,” said the other, “and a flask of Gascon wine on Sabbaths.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So quiet and reposeful within, for everyone slept, spent with watching, and a Sabbath stillness reigned through the house, while nodding Hannah mounted guard at the door.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There could not be fewer than thirty persons with their wives and children (for the country is very populous;) and my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever he showed me at home, although it were only to a single family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of the week (except Wednesday, which is their Sabbath,) although I were not carried to the town.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A little solace came at tea-time, in the shape of a double ration of bread—a whole, instead of a half, slice—with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: it was the hebdomadal treat to which we all looked forward from Sabbath to Sabbath.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is the custom, that every Wednesday (which, as I have observed, is their Sabbath) the king and queen, with the royal issue of both sexes, dine together in the apartment of his majesty, to whom I was now become a great favourite; and at these times, my little chair and table were placed at his left hand, before one of the salt-cellars.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But much as she liked to write for children, Jo could not consent to depict all her naughty boys as being eaten by bears or tossed by mad bulls because they did not go to a particular Sabbath school, nor all the good infants who did go as rewarded by every kind of bliss, from gilded gingerbread to escorts of angels when they departed this life with psalms or sermons on their lisping tongues.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)