BOOK OF ESTHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Esther mean? 

• BOOK OF ESTHER (noun)
  The noun BOOK OF ESTHER has 1 sense:

1. an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre

  Familiarity information: BOOK OF ESTHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOK OF ESTHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Esther; Esther

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Book of Esther" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)