Sabbath
(noun) a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sabbath (plural sabbaths)
Alternative letter-case form of Sabbath
• Shabbat, shabbat
Sabbath (plural Sabbaths)
Saturday, observed in Judaism and some Christian denominations as a day of rest and worship.
Sunday, observed in most of Christianity as a day of rest and worship.
Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest and worship.
A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' sabbath, sabbat, or black sabbath.)
(historical) Among the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.
Synonym: Sabbath year
• Shabbat, shabbat
Source: Wiktionary
Sab"bath, n. Etym: [OE. sabat, sabbat, F. sabbat, L. sabbatum, Gr. shabbath, fr. shabath to rest from labor. Cf. Sabbat.]
1. A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8.
2. The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival. Lev. xxv. 4.
3. Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like. Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb. Pope. Sabbath breaker, one who violates the law of the Sabbath.
– Sabbath breaking, the violation of the law of the Sabbath.
– Sabbath-day's journey, a distance of about a mile, which, under Rabbinical law, the Jews were allowed to travel on the Sabbath.
Syn.
– Sabbath, Sunday. Sabbath is not strictly synonymous with Sunday. Sabbath denotes the institution; Sunday is the name of the first day of the week. The Sabbath of the Jews is on Saturday, and the Sabbath of most Christians on Sunday. In New England, the first day of the week has been called "the Sabbath," to mark it as holy time; Sunday is the word more commonly used, at present, in all parts of the United States, as it is in England. "So if we will be the children of our heavenly Father, we must be careful to keep the Christian Sabbathday, which is the Sunday." Homilies.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 February 2025
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The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
