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  • noun (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC

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Examples

  • They go to a jewish-y preschool where they learn all the hannukah songs and give my husband and I some serious flashbacks.

    Sometimes It Feels Like, Santa Is Watching Me | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • I wouldn't refuse a hannukah gift from you, nor a Ramadan one from someone else .. whether I was in prison or not.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • I wouldn't refuse a hannukah gift from you, nor a Ramadan one from someone else .. whether I was in prison or not.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Elohaynu melech ha'alom, asher kidishanu b'mitzvotah, vihitzivenu lehadlik, ner shel hannukah

    BSNYC Hot Friday Quiz Action! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • And, in defense of wreckerators everywhere, no one spells hannukah right, 'cause there are, like, 15 different spellings.

    Chappy Chanukah 2009

  • The menorah is used in Jewish relgious observations during hannukah.

    Sound Politics: "Christmas trees are going back up at Sea-Tac airport." 2006

  • More: monkey cooking latkes, hannukah celebration, christmas stuff, and ... hmmmm ... a visit with the truthiness elf, winner of the NPR holiday crafts contest.

    - Boing Boing 2006

  • Happy solstice, festivus, squidmas, hannukah, kwanza, christmas and freeze your assoff in saskatchewan day ;

    Grace In Small Things: Part 28 of 365 2008

  • So i received a hannukah package a couple of days ago and want to thank all of you who contributed. mr frasier, the newspapers and candy were wonderful.

    Its..hot..again… 2008

  • Ayala metuka, hag hannukah sameach lach velekol hamishpacha!

    Velvet Gardenia Ayala Sender 2008

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