Usually means: Jewish ceremony marking boy's adulthood.
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  1. bar mitzvah: Merriam-Webster
  2. bar mitzvah: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bar mitzvah: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Bar Mitzvah: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bar mitzvah: Vocabulary.com
  6. bar-mitzvah: Wordnik
  7. bar mitzvah: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bar mitzvah: Wiktionary
  9. bar mitzvah: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. bar mitzvah: Dictionary.com
  11. Bar Mitzvah: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Bar Mitzvah, Bar mitzvah: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. bar mitzvah: Rhymezone
  14. bar mitzvah: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bar mitzvah: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. bar mitzvah: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. bar mitzvah: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Bar Mitzvah: Encyclopedia

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  1. Bar Mitzvah: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bar mitzvah)

▸ noun:  (Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for boys.
▸ noun:  (Judaism) A boy who has come of age.
▸ verb:  (transitive, usually passive voice) To initiate someone in a bar mitzvah ceremony.

Similar:
bat mitzvah, bas mitzvah, bath mitzvah, batmitzvah, bark mitzvah, mitzva, mitsvah, mitzvah, milchemet mitzvah, brit milah, more...

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Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Humanistic, Kabbalat Shabbat, Youth, more...

Phrases:
Bar and bat mitzvah, Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah, Adult bar and bat mitzvah, bar mitzvah toast, bar mitzvah celebrant, more...

Adjectives:
muktzah, brit, minyan, shomer, av, muktzeh, assur, goyishe, rabbinic, meshuggeneh, meshuga
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Similar:
bat mitzvah, bas mitzvah, bath mitzvah, batmitzvah, bark mitzvah, mitzva, mitsvah, mitzvah, milchemet mitzvah, brit milah, more...

Types:
Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Humanistic, Kabbalat Shabbat, Youth, more...

Phrases:
Bar and bat mitzvah, Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah, Adult bar and bat mitzvah, bar mitzvah toast, bar mitzvah celebrant, bar mitzvah dance, baptism or bar mitzvah, bar mitzvah official, more...

Adjectives:
muktzah, brit, minyan, shomer, av, muktzeh, assur, goyishe, rabbinic, meshuggeneh, meshuga



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