TABERNACLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tabernacles mean? 

• TABERNACLES (noun)
  The noun TABERNACLES 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 wilderness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TABERNACLES (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 ("Tabernacles" 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 ("Tabernacles" 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))

 Context examples 

Brother Luke hath given me some skill in damask work, and in the enamelling of shrines, tabernacles, diptychs and triptychs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)