high holy day

1. 1.

   Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity

   SynonymsHigh Holiday

   BroaderJewish holy day

   NarrowerRosh HashanahYom Kippur

Questions about high holy day

What does high holy day mean?

high holy day means "Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity".

What is another word for high holy day?

Close synonyms include High Holiday. 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 high holy day a common word?

high holy day 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.