Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jewish_calendar

1 sense of jewish calendar

Sense 1
Jewish calendar, Hebrew calendar -- ((Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years)
       => lunisolar calendar -- (a calendar based on both lunar and solar cycles)