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jewish calendar
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jewish calendar has 1 sense
- jewish calendar(n = noun.time) hebrew calendar - (Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years; Array is a kind of lunisolar calendar
has parts: jewish calendar month, tishri, heshvan, chislev, kislev, tebet, tevet, shebat, shevat, adar, adar sheni, veadar, nisan, nissan, iyar, iyyar, sivan, siwan, tammuz, thammuz, ab, av, ellul, elul
CIDE DICTIONARY
jewish calendar,
A lunisolar calendar in use among Hebraic peoples, reckoning from the year 3761 b. c. , the date traditionally given for the Creation.
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jewish calendar
Chronometry
N chronometry, horometry, horology, date, epoch, style, era, almanac, calendar, ephemeris, register, registry, chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram, clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio, watch, wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch, atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock, chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph, repeater, timekeeper, timepiece, dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra, ghurry, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper, annalist, calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year, chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical, cinquecento, quattrocento, trecento, o'clock.
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