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jubilee
1. n. (Jewish history) A special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free.
2. n. A 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th or 70th anniversary.
3. n. (Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then fifty, and then fewer) in which remission from sin could be granted as well as indulgences upon making a pilgrimage to Rome.
4. n. A time of celebration or rejoicing.
5. n. (obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century.

Example Sentences

But such days, even allowing for last year's jubilee celebrations, are a thing of the past, even in Britain, she added.

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