religious festival

Other forms: religious festivals

Definitions of religious festival
  1. noun
    a festival having religious significance
    synonyms: church festival
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    types:
    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
    type of:
    festival
    a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
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