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HIGH HOLY DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does High Holy Day mean?
• HIGH HOLY DAY (noun)
The noun HIGH HOLY DAY has 1 sense:
1. Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity
Familiarity information: HIGH HOLY DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
High Holiday; High Holy Day
Hypernyms ("High Holy Day" is a kind of...):
Jewish holy day (a religious holiday for Jews)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "High Holy Day"):
Jewish New Year; Rosh Hashana; Rosh Hashanah; Rosh Hashona; Rosh Hashonah ((Judaism) a solemn Jewish feast day celebrated on the 1st or 1st and 2nd of Tishri; noted for the blowing of the shofar)
Day of Atonement; Yom Kippur ((Judaism) a solemn and major fast day on the Jewish calendar; 10th of Tishri; its observance is one of the requirements of the Mosaic law)
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