Synonyms for hanukkah
ˈhɑ nə kə, ˈxɑ-hanukkah

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1. Hanukkahnoun

   Synonyms:
   Feast of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Festival of Lights

2. Hanukkahnoun

   A Jewish eight-day festival starting on the 25th day of Kislev, that commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.

   Synonyms:
   Feast of Dedication, Feast of Lights, Festival of Lights

Princeton's WordNet

1. Hanukkah, Hanukah, Hannukah, Chanukah, Chanukkah, Channukah, Channukkah, Festival of Lights, Feast of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Feast of the Dedicationnoun

   (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC

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1. List of paraphrases for "hanukkah":

   chanukah

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1. Ido Meroz:

   We heard there are interesting caves in the region, we began to peer into them, and that’s how we came to this cave, which is extremely impressive with rock-carved niches and engravings on the wall. HANUKKAH SURPRISE : ANCIENT COIN FOUND AT JERUSALEM'S TOWER OF DAVID.

2. Katia Cytryn-Silverman:

   As this happened toward the Jewish Holiday of Hanukkah ? which celebrates the liberation and the rededication of the Second Temple by the Maccabeans (second century BCE) and the miracle of the lasting oil, which burned in the Temple's menorah for eight days ? we decided to bring the finding to public knowledge, as a good wish for Hannukah and for the Holiday Season.

3. Bill Martin:

   We saw a little lull coming out of Thanksgiving but when Hanukkah began, we saw December heating up, then there was a very strong weekend after Christmas and it ran pretty hot for retailers with customers returning with gift cards.

4. Alan Gross:

   It’s the best Hanukkah I’ll be celebrating for a long time.

5. Dennis Craig:

   That this hateful act took place on the last night of Hanukkah when our Jewish community members were celebrating the survival of their religion, makes it even more reprehensible, messages of hate, while becoming more and more prevalent in our country, have no place on our campus and will be treated with the utmost severity.