jubilees

We have found lemma(root) word of jubilees : jubilee.

Definitions


[ˌdʒuːbɪˈliː], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating twenty-five or fifty years of a reign or activity
(e.g: to celebrate its jubilee, the club is holding a tournament)

- a year of emancipation and restoration, kept every fifty years

- a period of remission from the penal consequences of sin, granted by the Roman Catholic Church under certain conditions for a year, usually at intervals of twenty-five years


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Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French jubile, from late Latin jubilaeus (annus) ‘(year) of jubilee’, based on Hebrew yōḇēl, originally ‘ram's-horn trumpet’, with which the jubilee year was proclaimed




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