Jubilee

See also: jubilee and jubilée

English

Etymology

Ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew יוֹבֵל (yovél, “ram's horn, shofar”), which was used for the proclamation of the year of Jubilee.

Noun

Jubilee (plural Jubilees)

1. (Jewish law) a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years
2. (in Roman Catholicism) a holy year when people are encouraged to make a pilgrimage to Rome
3. The Jubilee Line of the London Underground (named after the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II).

Translations

a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禧年, 聖年／圣年

• German: Jobeljahr (de) n, Jubeljahr (de) n, Erlassjahr n, Erlaßjahr n (old spelling), Halljahr n
• Hebrew: יוֹבֵל (he) m (yovél), שְׁנַת הַיּוֹבֵל f (sh'nat ha-yovél)
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• Hungarian: Jóbel-év
• Japanese: 聖年 (seinen)
• Old Armenian: յոբելեան (yobelean)

a holy year when people are encouraged to make a pilgrimage to Rome

• German: Jubeljahr (de) n
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• Hungarian: jubileum (hu)