feast of tabernacles

Questions about feast of tabernacles

What does feast of tabernacles mean?

feast of tabernacles means "a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness".

What is another word for feast of tabernacles?

Close synonyms include Succoth, Sukkoth, Succos, Feast of Booths, Tabernacles. 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 tabernacles a common word?

feast of tabernacles 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.