Jubilee Synonyms & Definitions

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• JubileeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A season of general joy.
2. (n.) The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victorias reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions.
3. (n.) A state of joy or exultation.
4. (n.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.
5. (n.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners.
6. () One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.