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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun passover has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

passovern. [Pass + over. See Pasch.].
     A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.  Ex. xii.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

passover, n.
1 the Jewish spring festival commemorating the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage, held from the 14th to the 21st day of the seventh month of the Jewish year.
2 = paschal lamb.

Etymology
pass over = pass without touching, with ref. to the exemption of the Israelites from the death of the first-born (Exod. 12)
Also see definition of "passover" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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