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SHEVAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Shevat mean?
• SHEVAT (noun)
The noun SHEVAT has 1 sense:
1. the fifth month of the civil year: the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in January and February)
Familiarity information: SHEVAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fifth month of the civil year: the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in January and February)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Shebat; Shevat
Hypernyms ("Shevat" is a kind of...):
Jewish calendar month (a month in the Jewish calendar)
Holonyms ("Shevat" is a part of...):
Hebrew calendar; Jewish calendar ((Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years)
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