Usually means: Jewish festival celebrating rededication, lights.
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  1. Hanukkah: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hanukkah: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Hanukkah: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Hanukkah: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hanukkah: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hanukkah, hanukkah: Wordnik
  7. Hanukkah, hanukkah: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hanukkah: Wiktionary
  9. Hanukkah: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Hanukkah: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Hanukkah: Dictionary.com
  12. Hanukkah: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. hanukkah: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hanukkah (Khazar), Hanukkah (disambiguation), Hanukkah: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hanukkah: Rhymezone
  16. hanukkah: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hanukkah: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Hanukkah: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Hanukkah: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. Hanukkah: Infoplease Dictionary
  21. hanukkah: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. Hanukkah: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Hanukkah: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hanukkah)

▸ noun:  (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish festival, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, which commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.

Similar:
Chanukah, Hanukah, Festival of Lights, feast of dedication, feast of the dedication, Hanukka, Chanukkah, Hannukah, Hannukkah, Hanuka, more...

Opposite:
christmas

Types:
latke, dreidel, gelt, dreydl, dreidl, more...

Phrases:
happy hanukkah, Hanukkah bush, Hanukkah menorah, Hanukkah gelt, Monsey Hanukkah stabbing, more...

Adjectives:
happy, first, celebrated, last, special

Colors:
    blue,     white,     silver,     gold,     light blue, more...


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Similar:
Chanukah, Hanukah, Festival of Lights, feast of dedication, feast of the dedication, Hanukka, Chanukkah, Hannukah, Hannukkah, Hanuka, more...

Opposite:
christmas

Types:
latke, dreidel, gelt, dreydl, dreidl, more...

Phrases:
happy hanukkah, Hanukkah bush, Hanukkah menorah, Hanukkah gelt, Monsey Hanukkah stabbing, Hanukkah music, hanukkah staple, hanukkah chocolate shape, hanukkah money, hanukkah potato treat, more...

Adjectives:
happy, first, celebrated, last, special

Colors:
    blue,     white,     silver,     gold,     light blue, more...



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