Usually means: Celebration marking a significant anniversary.
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  1. jubilee: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jubilee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jubilee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jubilee: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jubilee: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jubilee, jubilee: Wordnik
  7. jubilee: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Jubilee, jubilee: Wiktionary
  9. jubilee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jubilee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jubilee: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jubilee, jubilee: Dictionary.com
  13. jubilee: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Jubilee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. jubilee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. jubilee: Rhymezone
  18. jubilee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. jubilee: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. jubilee: Free Dictionary
  21. jubilee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Jubilee: The Word Detective
  23. jubilee: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Jubilee: World Wide Words
  25. Jubilee: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jubilee (disambiguation), jubilee: Legal dictionary

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  1. Jubilee (Christian), Jubilee (disambiguation), jubilee: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jubilee: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jubilee: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Jubilee: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jubilees as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable, Jewish history) A special year of emancipation supposed to be observed every fifty years, when farming was temporarily stopped, certain houses and land which had been sold could be redeemed by the original owners or their relatives, and Hebrew slaves set free.
noun:  (countable, by extension)
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then at more frequent intervals, and now declarable by the Pope at any time and also for periods less than a year) in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted upon making a pilgrimage to Rome or other designated churches.
noun:  A major anniversary of an event, particularly the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of a coronation or marriage.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  (countable) A time for release or restitution.
noun:  (countable) A time of celebration or rejoicing.
noun:  (uncountable) Exultation, rejoicing; jubilation.
noun:  (uncountable) The sound of celebration or rejoicing; shouts of joy.
noun:  (countable, African-American Vernacular, music, often attributively) A joyful African-American (usually Christian) folk song.
noun:  (countable, obsolete)
noun:  A period of fifty years; a half-century.
noun:  (rare) A fiftieth year.
noun:  (rail transport) A London Underground line which runs between Stratford in East London and Stanmore in northwest London, via the London Docklands, South Bank, and West End.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of jubilee (“(Jewish history) special year of emancipation supposed to be observed every fifty years; (Roman Catholicism) special year in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted”) [(countable, Jewish history) A special year of emancipation supposed to be observed every fifty years, when farming was temporarily stopped, certain houses and land which had been sold could be redeemed by the original owners or their relatives, and Hebrew slaves set free.]

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