hannukah

English Thesaurus

1. (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC (noun.time)

hypernym	:	jewish holy day,
definition	:	a religious holiday for Jews (noun.time)

part meronym	:	chislev, kislev,
definition	:	the third month of the civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in November and December) (noun.time)

part meronym	:	tebet, tevet,
definition	:	the fourth month of the civil year; the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year (in December and January) (noun.time)

domain category	:	judaism,
definition	:	the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud (noun.cognition)