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

1 sense of karaites

Sense 1
Karaites -- (a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century)
       => sect, religious sect, religious order -- (a subdivision of a larger religious group)