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MOVEABLE FEAST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years
Synonyms:
movable feast; moveable feast
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("moveable feast" is a kind of...):
feast day; fete day (a day designated for feasting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moveable feast"):
Easter (a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox)
Feast of the Unleavened Bread; Passover; Pesach; Pesah ((Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt)
