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What is a jubilee?

What is a jubilee? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Jewish historical) A special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free. [from 14th c.]
  2. A 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th or 70th anniversary. [from 14th c.]
  3. (Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then fifty, and then fewer) in which remission from sin could be granted as well as indulgences upon making a pilgrimage to Rome. [from 15th c.]
  4. A time of celebration or rejoicing. [from 16th c.]
  5. (obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century. [17th-18th c.]
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Eileen and Paddy King celebrated their golden wedding jubilee in Scunthorpe, England yesterday, Monday.
The term juba comes from the name of the chief drummer in the jubilee songs who pounded out the rhythms on celebration days of black culture.
Bocelli was the official voice of the church's jubilee in the year 2000 and knew the pope for a long time.
He didn't want his 50th jubilee to be celebrated at all, let alone celebrated with the customary pompous laudatory speeches.
To celebrate the jubilee the County Carlow Association London has decided to record the history of their association.
The archway will be based upon a structure that was put up in Churchgate to mark Queen Victoria's jubilee.

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