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ECCLESIASTES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ecclesiastes mean? 

ECCLESIASTES (noun)
  The noun ECCLESIASTES has 1 sense:

1. an Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life; is traditionally attributed to Solomon but probably was written about 250 BCplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ECCLESIASTES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life; is traditionally attributed to Solomon but probably was written about 250 BC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Ecclesiastes; Ecclesiastes

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Ecclesiastes" 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)

sapiential book; wisdom book; wisdom literature (any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom)


 Context examples 


I wondered what Wolf Larsen could get from it, and he read aloud to me from Ecclesiastes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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