Jubilee

Quick meaning: Jubilee is a noun meaning A major anniversary of an event, particularly the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of a coronation or marriage.

Meaning

A major anniversary of an event, particularly the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of a coronation or marriage.

More Meanings

1. A time for release or restitution.
2. A time of celebration or rejoicing.
3. Exultation, rejoicing; jubilation.
4. The sound of celebration or rejoicing; shouts of joy.
5. A joyful African-American (usually Christian) folk song.
6. (countable, Jewish history) A special year of emancipation supposed to be observed every fifty years, when farming was temporarily stopped, certain houses and land which had been sold could be redeemed by the original owners or their relatives, and Hebrew slaves set free.
7. A special year (originally held every hundred years, then at more frequent intervals, and now declarable by the Pope at any time and also for periods less than a year) in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted upon making a pilgrimage to Rome or other designated churches.

Example Sentences

The chains of that great power we broke; / The burdened captives were set free, / For Lincoln held the pen, whose stroke / Proclaimed, the year of jubilee.

"Hurrah! hurrah! we bring the Jubilee! / Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!" / So we sung the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, / While we were marching through Georgia.

[A] married couple, when celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage-day, are said to keep their golden jubilee, but on the 25th anniversary they have credit only for a silver jubilee.

[I]n the old Israel, there had supposedly been a system of ‘Jubilee’, a year in which all land should go back to the family to which it had originally belonged and during which all slaves should be released.

Word Forms

• jubilees
• jubile

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