Definitions for Passover

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Passover Pass·o·ver

Spelling: [pas-oh-ver, pahs-]

IPA: /ˈpæsˌoʊ vər, ˈpɑs-/

Passover is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 333 anagrams from letters in Passover (aeoprssv).

Definitions for Passover

noun

1. Also called Pesach, Pesah. a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for seven days by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel.
2. (lowercase) paschal lamb (def 1).

Origin of Passover

1520-30; noun use of verb phrase pass over, as translation of Hebrew pesaḥ

Examples for Passover

You remember that it was April and Passover was coming on; in fact, it began that night.

She asked if I wasn't going to stay out of school during Passover, and I said no.

The New York Board of Rabbis would send in cases of macaroons for the congregation at every Passover.

If the Passover leaflet from 2014 was nothing but a joke, then it was nonetheless a sick and twisted one.

Yet they were saved by the Passover through the faith of their parents.

"We would like to see Pollard free in time for Passover [which starts on the evening of April 14]," he said.

It is the eve of the Passover feast, the birthday of Israel's nationality.

Late last night, I found myself looking at the Passover Hagadah.

And for some regional variety, in Iran with its nuclear ambitions, every day is Passover.

Was not my first poem based on one in the Passover night Hagadah?