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    FEAST OF SACRIFICE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charityplay

    Synonyms:

    Feast of Sacrifice; Id al-Adha

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Hypernyms ("Feast of Sacrifice" is a kind of...):

    feast day; fete day (a day designated for feasting)

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