See Feast of Light on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From the importance of candles or light in the celebration.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "head": "Feast of Light" }, "expansion": "Feast of Light", "name": "en-proper noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Judaism", "orig": "en:Judaism", "parents": [ "Abrahamism", "Religion", "Culture", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1940, Emily Solis-Cohen, Jr., Hanukkah: The Feast of Light, Jewish Publication Society:", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1942, Jewish Spectator, volume 7, page 46:", "text": "We celebrate Hanukkah, the Feast of Light, in commemoration of the Maccabees' putting an end to the sinister oppression [...]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1997, The collected writings, volume 7, →ISBN, page 200:", "text": "Chanukah recounts the rededication of the Sanctuary which had been despoiled by the Greeks. The celebration of the eight-day Feast of Light recalls the victorious survival of the Sanctuary, not the courage of the Maccabees.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights." ], "id": "en-Feast_of_Light-en-name-r4Fvf~u-", "links": [ [ "Judaism", "Judaism" ], [ "Hanukkah", "Hanukkah" ], [ "Festival of Lights", "Festival of Lights" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Judaism) Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights." ], "related": [ { "word": "Festival of Lights" } ], "tags": [ "Judaism" ] } ], "word": "Feast of Light" }
{ "etymology_text": "From the importance of candles or light in the celebration.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "head": "Feast of Light" }, "expansion": "Feast of Light", "name": "en-proper noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "related": [ { "word": "Festival of Lights" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English proper nouns", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Judaism" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1940, Emily Solis-Cohen, Jr., Hanukkah: The Feast of Light, Jewish Publication Society:", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1942, Jewish Spectator, volume 7, page 46:", "text": "We celebrate Hanukkah, the Feast of Light, in commemoration of the Maccabees' putting an end to the sinister oppression [...]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1997, The collected writings, volume 7, →ISBN, page 200:", "text": "Chanukah recounts the rededication of the Sanctuary which had been despoiled by the Greeks. The celebration of the eight-day Feast of Light recalls the victorious survival of the Sanctuary, not the courage of the Maccabees.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights." ], "links": [ [ "Judaism", "Judaism" ], [ "Hanukkah", "Hanukkah" ], [ "Festival of Lights", "Festival of Lights" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Judaism) Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights." ], "tags": [ "Judaism" ] } ], "word": "Feast of Light" }
Download raw JSONL data for Feast of Light meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.