TISHRI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tishri mean? 

• TISHRI (noun)
  The noun TISHRI has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TISHRI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

Jewish calendar month (a month in the Jewish calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Tishri"):

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)

Holonyms ("Tishri" 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)