Haggadah

American  

[huh-gah-duh, hah-gah-dah, hah-gaw-duh] / həˈgɑ də, hɑ gɑˈdɑ, hɑˈgɔ də /

noun

Haggadoth, plural Haggadot, plural Haggados, plural Haggadas plural

1. a book containing the liturgy for the Seder service on the Jewish festival of Passover.

2. Aggadah.

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Haggadah British  

/ həˈɡædɪk, haɡaˈdaː, -ɡɔˈdɔ, -ˈɡɑː-, həˈɡɑːdə /

noun

1. 1. a book containing the order of service of the traditional Passover meal

   2. the narrative of the Exodus from Egypt that constitutes the main part of that service See also Seder

2. another word for Aggadah

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• haggadic
  adjective
• haggadical
  adjective

Inflected Forms

noun

• Haggadot
  plural
• Haggadoth
  plural
• Haggadas
  plural
• Haggados
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Haggadah

From Hebrew; see origin at Aggadah

Example Sentences

His colleagues at JTS denounced him for the 1941 publication of his amended Passover Haggadah.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Still, after the clamor died down, Kaplan’s accessible Haggadah became an example for many subsequent versions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Others have created a new Haggadah, the book read during the Seder, to reflect current realities.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2024

There’s an exquisite Haggadah, handwritten in Calcutta and festooned with Mughal-inspired illumination, whose pages tell the Passover story in both Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

During the endless seder dinner and the even more endless explanations from the Haggadah, Hannah frequently glanced out the window.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen