Definition of jubilee
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A season of general joy.
- n. - A state of joy or exultation.