Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) jubile
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (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.
- (Roman Catholicism) 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.
- A major anniversary of an event, particularly the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of a coronation or marriage.
- (countable) A time for release or restitution.
- (countable) A time of celebration or rejoicing.
- (uncountable) Exultation, rejoicing; jubilation.
- (uncountable) The sound of celebration or rejoicing; shouts of joy.
- (countable, African-American Vernacular, music, often attributively) A joyful African-American (usually Christian) folk song.
- A period of fifty years; a half-century.
- (rare) A fiftieth year.
Esimerkit
- in 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.
- How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede [...] that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | jubilees |
Luokat
(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.
Israeli stamp commemorating the Jewish National Fund and quoting Leviticus 25:23: "The land must not be sold permanently…"
(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.
The Levites sound the trumpet of Jubilee (1873 illustration)