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Definition of 'Shavuot'Alternative forms
* Shavuos
Proper noun
( en-proper noun)
A Jewish holiday, originally a harvest festival but also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
* 1971 , United States Congress: Senate: Foreign Relations, Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty :
- Major Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Succoth, Chanukah, Passover and Shavuot have been celebrated with Hebrew prayers and songs.
* 1975 , Israel Zinberg, Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period :
- On the first day of Shavuot the Ten Commandments were explained to the people homiletically in the vernacular.
Synonyms
* (Jewish holiday) Shavuos, Feast of Weeks, Pentecost
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