Definition of High Holiday

1. Noun. Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity.


Lexicographical Neighbors of High Holiday

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Higgs particle
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Higgsino
Higgsinos
Higgsless
High Anglican Church
High Anglicanism
High Church
High Commission
High Dam
High German
High Holiday (current term)
High Holy Day
High Middle Ages
High Renaissance
High Sierra
High Street
Highbury
Higher Intermediate Fare
Higher Intermediate Point
Higher National Diploma
Highland
Highland Gaelic
Highland games
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Literary usage of High Holiday

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Translation of the Treatise Chagigah from the Babylonian Talmud by A W Streane (1891)
"Well, then, it follows that on a high holiday they come from the tithe. But why ? For surely it is obligatory, and everything which is obligatory comes only ..."

2. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1917)
"On a high holiday, on a high holiday, The very first day of the year, Little Matthy Groves to church did go God's holy word to hear, hear, God's holy word ..."

3. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1908)
"... Till the welcome knell of the midnight bell rings forth its jolliest tune, And ushers our next high holiday—the dead of the night's high-noon! Chorus. ..."

4. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... Till the welcome knell of the midnight bell rings forth its jolliest tune, And ushers our next high holiday—the dead of the night's high noon ! ..."

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