Usually means: Ancient Jewish ascetic sect, mystics.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essenes: Merriam-Webster
  2. Essenes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Essenes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Essenes, essenes: Wordnik
  5. Essenes: Wiktionary
  6. Essenes: Dictionary.com
  7. Essenes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Essenes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Essenes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. essenes: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. essenes: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Essenes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Essenes: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Essenes: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essenes: Easton Bible
  2. Essenes: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Essenes: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

(Note: See essene as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Essenes)

noun:  The Essenes (Hebrew: , ʾĪssīyīm; Greek: Ἐσσηνοί, Ἐσσαῖοι, or Ὀσσαῖοι, Essenoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi) or Essenians were a mystic Jewish sect during the Second Temple period that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE.


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