tabernacles

Other forms of tabernacles

plural

tabernacleses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tabernacles

What does tabernacles mean?

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".

How many syllables are in tabernacles?

tabernacles has 3 syllables: taber-na-cles. The stress falls on "taber".

What is another word for tabernacles?

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

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.