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Meanings of High Holiday in English

Portuguese
grandes festas no judaísmo

Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity.

grandes festas no judaísmo
Synonyms
Examples for "High Holy Day"
Examples for "High Holy Day"
1
We celebrated the five high holy days and King Stephen's birthday.
Honour's Knight
2
I hope I made his High Holy Days, because I'm miserable.
You say tomato, I say shut up
3
We send a priest most high holy days.
Tuck
4
One of their high holy days.
Antiphon
5
Shargel used to teach at NYU Law School (criminal appellate) and on high holy days he is an usher at the Park Avenue Synagogue.
The new yorker
Usage of High Holiday in English
1
Was this some kind of High Holiday joke to amuse God on Rosh Hashanah?
You say tomato, I say shut up
2
For instance, I'm consistently stirred by the low-key, non-dressy Jewish High Holiday services at the Los Angeles Zen Center.
Feminist dot com
3
It's a High Holiday.
Beautiful creatures
4
Police are normally only present at the synagogue for security on high holidays.
Reuters
5
I was at a farm-house once when some high holiday was being celebrated.
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
6
Passing through Carnforth on my way, I found the town keeping high holiday.
The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century
7
A shipload of tourists in high holiday spirits cavorted around him.
The man who ate the 747
8
Synagogue officials said police would only normally have been present for security on high holidays.
Reuters
9
The sisterhood, abstemious nearly all the days of the year, feasted on certain high holidays.
The Lost Lady of Lone
10
They are not harvesting now: they are refreshing themselves, holding high holiday, teasing one another.
Bramble-Bees and Others
11
The devil is resolved to make high holiday:
Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
12
Kept high holiday there, and many a time
The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems
13
It was steak and butter and thick red wine that gods ate on the high holidays of their divinity.
Stories: all-new tales
14
According to their custom after successful war, they boiled beans, held the feast of victory, and kept high holiday.
The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
15
Mick was a farmer and a force that came to life on the high holidays of this Celtic land.
Independent.ie
16
But, as xkcd's inimitable Randall Munroe recently pointed out, the songs currently on high holiday rotation are a bit over-focused.
Wired
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Translations for High Holiday