feast of sacrifice

1. 1.

   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 charity

   SynonymsId al-Adha

   Broaderfeast day

Questions about feast of sacrifice

What does feast of sacrifice mean?

feast of sacrifice means "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 charity".

What is another word for feast of sacrifice?

Close synonyms include Id al-Adha. 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 sacrifice a common word?

feast of sacrifice 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.