festival of lights

Questions about festival of lights

What does festival of lights mean?

festival 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 festival 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 festival of lights a common word?

festival 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.