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Sukkoth

Sukkoth

1 9.9
A Jewish festival lasting seven days when people live in temporary shelters called sukkahs
  • noun
  • /suˈkoʊθ/
translation icon : Sukkot
  • They'd gathered in the searing heat of Los Angeles' early fall to hear about Sukkoth, a harvest holiday.
  • harvest festival of Sukkoth

Examples

  • My favorite here is Sukkoth, which is not a Jewish substitute for Thanksgiving.

    Blog text (7)

  • They didn't know anything about Sukkoth.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • This evening marks the first night of Sukkoth.

  • Sukkoth celebrates the harvest festival; it's the bounty of the fall festival following Yom Kippur.

Synonyms

Tabernacles
vsSukkoth
1 8.5

A major Jewish festival in autumn when people live briefly in small shelters to remember the Israelites' desert journey

is the original name in another language instead of English
Succoth
vsSukkoth
1 9.9

A Jewish festival that remembers the Israelites living in temporary shelters during their time in the desert

is the other transliteration form used for that observance
Feast of Tabernacles
vsSukkoth
1 8.3

A week-long Jewish festival called Sukkot in autumn when people live briefly in small shelters to remember the desert journey

is the original non-English form used in religious contexts
Succos
vsSukkoth
9.9

A Jewish festival when people eat and pray in temporary shelters

is the traditional transliteration variant of that festival
Feast of Booths
vsSukkoth
8.0

A weeklong Jewish festival in autumn when people live in small huts to remember time in the desert

is the same festival but expressed in the original non-English term

Surface Forms

Sukkoth singular
Sukkoths plural

Etymology

Sukkoth comes from the Hebrew word sukkah, which means 'hut' or 'booth', a simple, temporary 'shelter'. The festival of Sukkoth is when people build these small shelters to remember the Israelites' time in the desert, so the name tells you the festival is about shelters.