Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The third month of the year in the Jewish calendar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The third month of the Jewish sacred year and the ninth of the civil year, corresponding to the latter part of May and part of June.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Judaism The ninth month of the civil year in the
Jewish calendar , afterIyar and beforeTammuz .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ninth month of the civil year; the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in May and June)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On the PreCentral forum, a user going by the name Sivan says that he has returned four Pres for various problems with the hardware.
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"I am doing Cheers with Sivan, which is being produced by us.
Times Now 2009
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"I am doing Cheers with Sivan, which is being produced by us.
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Celebrated filmmaker Santosh Sivan shot a promotional film that was shown at road shows across the world.
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Unlike any other day that I celebrate, the 28th of Sivan is about the shift from "over there" to "right here."
Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America Rabbi Shais Taub 2011
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Or, leaving aside for a moment the fact that it's been promoted most vigorously on white supremacist and anti-Semitic websites, let's go back to the Sivan Kurzberg story.
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The date coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Jewish calendric date of Sivan 28 on which the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.
Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America Rabbi Shais Taub 2011
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Yoav Sivan, an Israeli journalist, is a visiting scholar at New York University.
Yoav Sivan: Confessions of a Pinkwasher Yoav Sivan 2011
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It reminds me of what the Rebbe said at a gathering one year on the 28th of Sivan, "When you lift up a building, you've got to pry it up from the bottom."
Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America Rabbi Shais Taub 2011
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My holiday is the 28th of Sivan, because that's the day 70 years ago we were not only given a chance for spiritual survival down here on the bottom half of the planet, but to actually get to feel like we are at the center of things!
Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America Rabbi Shais Taub 2011
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