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

1 sense of feast of sacrifice

Sense 1
Id al-Adha, Feast of Sacrifice -- (the 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity)
       => feast day, fete day -- (a day designated for feasting)