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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thammuz  \Tham"muz\,  Tammuz  \Tam"muz\,  n.  [Heb.  thamm[=u]z.] 
  1.  A  deity  among  the  ancient  Syrians,  in  honor  of  whom  the 
  Hebrew  idolatresses  held  an  annual  lamentation.  This  deity 
  has  been  conjectured  to  be  the  same  with  the  Ph[oe]nician 
  Adon,  or  Adonis.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  The  fourth  month  of  the  Jewish  ecclesiastical  year,  -- 
  supposed  to  correspond  nearly  with  our  month  of  July. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Thammuz 
  n  :  the  tenth  month  of  the  civil  year;  the  fourth  month  of  the 
  ecclesiastic  year  (in  June  and  July)  [syn:  {Tammuz},  {Thammuz}] 




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