jubilee
jubilee Lexical Profile
jubilee Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating the twenty-fifth, fiftieth, or sixtieth year of a monarch's reign or an institution's founding.
"The university hosted a grand concert to commemorate its silver jubilee."
A season or occasion of general joyful celebration and rejoicing.
"The end of the harvest brought a week of jubilee to the entire valley."
In Jewish history, a year of emancipation and restoration observed every fifty years, during which enslaved people were freed and alienated lands were returned; in the Roman Catholic Church, a special holy year of remission from the penal consequences of sin.
"Thousands of pilgrims traveled to Rome to pass through the holy doors during the papal jubilee."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Middle English, from Old French jubile, from Late Latin jubilaeus, ultimately from Hebrew yobel ('ram's horn trumpet'), referring to the horn blown to proclaim the biblical year of emancipation.