What does the word sabbatical mean?

Usage examples for sabbatical

  1. " It would be our Silver Wedding Journey just as it would be my Sabbatical year- a good deal after date. – Their Silver Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells
  2. Sabbatical year: Every seventh year among the Jews, which was a year of rest for the land, when it was to be left without culture. – The American Woman's Home by Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
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