jubilee
(noun) a special anniversary (or the celebration of it)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
jubilee (plural jubilees)
(Jewish history) A special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free. [from 14th c.]
A 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th or 70th anniversary. [from 14th c.]
(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. [from 15th c.]
A time of celebration or rejoicing. [from 16th c.]
An occasion of mass manumission from slavery.
(obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century. [17th-18th c.]
Jubilee (plural Jubilees)
(Jewish law) a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years
(in Roman Catholicism) a holy year when people are encouraged to make a pilgrimage to Rome
The Jubilee Line of the London Underground (named after the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II).
Source: Wiktionary
Ju"bi*lee, n. Etym: [F. jubilé, L. jubilaeus, Gr. y the blast of a trumpet, also the grand sabbatical year, which was announced by sound of trumpet.]
1. (Jewish Hist.)
Definition: Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, jubile.] Lev. xxv. 8-17.
2. The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions.
3. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty- five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.
4. A season of general joy. The town was all a jubilee of feasts. Dryden.
5. A state of joy or exultation. [R.] "In the jubilee of his spirits." Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 May 2025
(noun) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; “he sent a runner over with the contract”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
