Tabor Definition

tābər
noun
A small drum, formerly used by a pipe player to beat out his own rhythmic accompaniment.
Webster's New World

A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.

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Synonyms:
verb
To beat on or as on a tabor.
Webster's New World
To strike lightly and frequently.
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Other Word Forms of Tabor

Noun

Singular:
tabor
Plural:
tabors

Origin of Tabor

  • Middle English tabur from Old French alteration of tambur tambour

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From various Slavic languages, from Turkish.

    From Wiktionary

Tabor Sentence Examples

  • It was maintained to be the pure and perfect essence of God Himself, that eternal light which had been manifested to the disciples on Mount Tabor at the transfiguration.

  • But in 1351 under the presidency of the emperor John Cantacuzenus, the uncreated light of Mount Tabor was established as an article of faith for the Greeks, who ever since have been ready to recognize it as an additional ground of separation from the Roman Church.

  • In the Syrian campaign of 1799, however, he commanded the vanguard, took El-Arish, Gaza and Jaffa, and won the great victory of Mount Tabor on the 15th of April 1799.

  • Some of the more advanced reformers left Prague and formed the party known as the Taborites, from the town of Tabor which became their centre.

  • Such are the books entitled Of the Great Torment of the Holy Church and the Lives of the Priests of Tabor, written in a sense violently hostile to that community.

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Words Starting With

TTATAB

Words Ending With

RORBOR

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