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SUCCOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Succoth mean? 

SUCCOTH (noun)
  The noun SUCCOTH has 1 sense:

1. 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 wildernessplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SUCCOTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Feast of Booths; Feast of Tabernacles; Succos; Succoth; Sukkoth; Tabernacles

Hypernyms ("Succoth" is a kind of...):

church festival; religious festival (a festival having religious significance)

Jewish holy day (a religious holiday for Jews)

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

Holonyms ("Succoth" is a part of...):

Tishri (the first month of the civil year; the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in September and October))


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