feast of lights

Questions about feast of lights

What does feast of lights mean?

feast of lights means "(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC".

What is another word for feast of lights?

Close synonyms include Hanukkah, Hanukah, Hannukah, Chanukah, Chanukkah. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is feast of lights a common word?

feast of lights is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.