JUBILEE
/dʒuːbɪˈliː/
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Definition
/dʒuːbɪˈliː/
noun
- (Jewish history) A special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free.
- A 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th or 70th anniversary.
- 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.
- A time of celebration or rejoicing.
- An occasion of mass manumission from slavery.
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