jubilee

noun

1. 1

   (Jewish history) A special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free.

2. 2

   A 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th or 70th anniversary.

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   A time of celebration or rejoicing.

5. 5

   An occasion of mass manumission from slavery.

6. 6

   A period of fifty years; a half-century.