Jubilee

  1. Noun.  (context, in the Old Testament) a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years.
  2. Noun.  (context, in Roman Catholicism) a holy year when people are encouraged to make a pilgrimage to Rome.
  3. Noun.  (context, Jewish) A special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
  4. Noun.  A fiftieth anniversary. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
  5. Noun.  (context, Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then fifty, and then fewer) in which remission from sin could be granted as well as indulgences upon making a pilgrimage to Rome. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
  6. Noun.  A time of celebration or rejoicing. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
  7. Noun.  (obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century. (defdate, 17th-18th c.) .

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