witches' sabbath

1. 1.

   a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy

   Synonymssabbat

   Broaderassembly

Questions about witches' sabbath

What does witches' sabbath mean?

witches' sabbath means "a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy".

What is another word for witches' sabbath?

Close synonyms include sabbat. 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 witches' sabbath a common word?

witches' sabbath 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.