Jubilee
['dʒuːbɪliː] or ['dʒubɪli]
Definition
(n.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners.
(n.) The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions.
(n.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.
(n.) A season of general joy.
(n.) A state of joy or exultation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Season of rejoicing.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Holiday, feast, rejoicing, merriment, festivity, revel, paean, carnival,high-day
ANT:Fast, humiliation, mourning, penitence, lent
Checker: Sophia
Definition
n. the year of release among the Jews every fiftieth year proclaimed by the sound of a trumpet: the celebration of a fiftieth anniversary—e.g. of a king's accession a bishop's consecration &c.: in the R.C. Church a year (every twenty-fifth—Ordinary jubilee) of indulgence for pilgrims and others an Extraordinary jubilee being specially appointed by the Pope: any season of great public joy and festivity.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a jubilee, denotes many pleasureable enterprises in which you will be a participant. For a young woman, this is a favorable dream, pointing to matrimony and increase of temporal blessings. To dream of a religious jubilee, denotes close but comfortable environments.
Typist: Vance
Examples
- In 1300 he held a jubilee, and a vast multitude of pilgrims assembled in Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On rising, another struck up a Methodist hymn, of which the burden was, The year of Jubilee is come,-- Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A jubilee of acclamations followed; and even Prince John, in admiration of Locksley's skill, lost for an instant his dislike to his person. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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