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TEVET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tevet mean? 

TEVET (noun)
  The noun TEVET has 1 sense:

1. the fourth month of the civil year; the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year (in December and January)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


TEVET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The fourth month of the civil year; the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year (in December and January)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Tebet; Tevet

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

Jewish calendar month (a month in the Jewish calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Tevet"):

Channukah; Channukkah; Chanukah; Chanukkah; Feast of Dedication; Feast of Lights; Feast of the Dedication; Festival of Lights; Hannukah; Hanukah; Hanukkah ((Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC)

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

Hebrew calendar; Jewish calendar ((Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years)


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