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RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious festival mean? 

RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL has 1 sense:

1. a festival having religious significanceplay

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A festival having religious significance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

church festival; religious festival

Hypernyms ("religious festival" is a kind of...):

festival (a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration)

Meronyms (parts of "religious festival"):

feast day; fete day (a day designated for feasting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious festival"):

Feast of Booths; Feast of Tabernacles; Succos; Succoth; Sukkoth; Tabernacles (a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness)

octave (a feast day and the seven days following it)


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