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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

마녀의 집회

Pronunciation / Transliteration: manyeoui jiphoe

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sabbat/ˈsæb.æt/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14200 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"마녀들의 집회는 자정에 열린다고 전해진다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A midnight meeting of witches supposedly held under the leadership of the devil.

    "In folklore, the coven gathered deep in the woods to hold their annual sabbat."
  2. 2

    Any of the seasonal festivals celebrated by Wiccans and neo-pagans.

    "The community gathered to celebrate the spring equinox as one of their major sabbats."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived via Old French and Latin from the Greek sabbaton, ultimately tracing back to the Hebrew shabbath meaning 'rest' or 'cessation'. Originally denoting the Jewish Sabbath, the term evolved in medieval Christian folklore to refer to a midnight assembly of witches, and later in modern Wicca to seasonal pagan festivals.

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