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   jubilee

   /ˈdʒuːbɪliː/

   noun

   • 1. a special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating twenty-five or fifty years of a reign or activity: "to celebrate its jubilee, the club is holding a tournament"
   • 2. a year of emancipation and restoration, kept every fifty years.
   • 3. a period of remission from the penal consequences of sin, granted by the Roman Catholic Church under certain conditions for a year, usually at intervals of twenty-five years.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French jubile, from late Latin jubilaeus (annus) ‘(year) of jubilee’, based on Hebrew yōḇēl, originally ‘ram's-horn trumpet’, with which the jubilee year was proclaimed.

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