Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
sukkah .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
Sukkot .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness
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Examples
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Strangely, the Rabbis call Sukkoth "zman simchateinu" - the time of our joy.
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Strangely, the Rabbis call Sukkoth "zman simchateinu" - the time of our joy.
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All around her she could hear families begin to gather in the Sukkoth.
Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011
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The attack was announced during Sukkoth, a Jewish holiday that is celebrated with "the four species", one of which is boughs with leaves from the myrtle tree.
Haggai Carmon: A Cyber War Against Iran: Whodunit? Haggai Carmon 2010
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The attack was announced during Sukkoth, a Jewish holiday that is celebrated with "the four species", one of which is boughs with leaves from the myrtle tree.
Haggai Carmon: A Cyber War Against Iran: Whodunit? Haggai Carmon 2010
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All around her she could hear families begin to gather in the Sukkoth.
Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011
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I approached from the corner where the First Aid Tent stands with its assurances of free care (and a massage table), then visited as many landmarks as possible: child care with kids blowing bubbles, the press tent, the theater tent (for poets and playwrights), the sukkah left over from Sukkoth (who said there is no religious presence?)
Rev. Ed Bacon: Living Into the Questions at Occupy L.A. Rev. Ed Bacon 2011
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As a family we do a huge Sukkoth party and invite all of our friends and family and neighbors and have hundreds of people here to celebrate Sukkot every year ....
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She would be coming in the early fall, right after Yom Kippur, and he wanted to plan a Sukkoth.
Summer of Glove! 2009
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Cross-cultural friendship between an old Jewish woman and a young African American boy is the focus of Mrs. Katz and Tush (1992), and the support diverse neighbors gave each other when the Oakland fire struck during the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth is emphasized in Tikvah Means Hope (1994).
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