Usually means: Jewish rebels; fought Hellenistic influence.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word maccabees:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Maccabees: Merriam-Webster
  2. Maccabees: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Maccabees: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Maccabees: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Maccabees: Wordnik
  6. Maccabees: Wiktionary
  7. Maccabees: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Maccabees: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Maccabees: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Maccabees: Dictionary.com
  11. Maccabees: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Maccabees (band), Maccabees (disambiguation), Maccabees, The Maccabees (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Maccabees: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Maccabees: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. maccabees: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. maccabees: FreeDictionary.org
  17. Maccabees: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Maccabees: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  19. Maccabees: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Maccabees (family), Maccabees: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Maccabees: Easton Bible
  2. Maccabees: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the maccabees: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Maccabees)

▸ noun:  (biblical) One of two books of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
▸ noun:  (history) A Jewish liberation movement who fought for, and established, independence in the Land of Israel during the second and first centuries BC.

Similar:
2 Maccabees, 1 Maccabees, Macc., 2 Macc., 1 Macc., Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, Machabee, Judith, more...

Opposite:
Seleucids, Hellenists, Greeks

Phrases:
1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, i maccabees, ii maccabees, Books of the Maccabees, more...

Adjectives:
second, fourth, first, third, heroic, brave, later, early, ancient, victorious, noble


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Similar:
2 Maccabees, 1 Maccabees, Macc., 2 Macc., 1 Macc., Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, Machabee, Judith, more...

Opposite:
Seleucids, Hellenists, Greeks

Phrases:
1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, i maccabees, ii maccabees, Books of the Maccabees, books of maccabees, the books of the maccabees, the maccabees, 4 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, more...

Adjectives:
second, fourth, first, third, heroic, brave, later, early, ancient, victorious, noble



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