sabbatic

1. 1.

   of or relating to the Sabbath

   “Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims”

   Synonymssabbatical

Questions about sabbatic

What does sabbatic mean?

sabbatic means "of or relating to the Sabbath".

How many syllables are in sabbatic?

sabbatic has 3 syllables: sab-ba-tic. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for sabbatic?

Close synonyms include sabbatical. 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 sabbatic a common word?

sabbatic 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.