Tabor

Tabor

Tabor may have the following meanings:

Proper names

Places

* Mount Tabor (disambiguation)
* Tábor, Czech Republic
** Taborite, member of a 15th century religious group considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church
* Tabor, Iowa, USA
* Tabor, South Dakota, USA
* Tabor, Victoria, Australia
* Tabor Island, a phantom island also known as "Maria Theresa Reef"

Organizations

* Tabor Science College, a school located in Braintree, Essex, England
* Tabor Academy, an independent preparatory school in Massachusetts, USA
* Tabor College, Australia, a national multicampus Christian liberal arts institution
* Tabor College, Kansas, a four-year Christian liberal arts institution in Hillsboro, Kansas

Personal names

* David Tabor, physicist
* Glenna W. Tabor, M.Ed., the creator of Tabor Rotation
* Horace A. W. Tabor, a nineteenth-century millionaire miner and U.S. senator
* June Tabor, English singer, predominantly of folk music
* Stanisław Tatar {"Tabor"), chief of staff of the "Armia Krajowa"
* Ty Tabor, lead guitarist, songwriter, and backup-vocalist for the band King's X
* Tabor (character), in the animated television series "Swat Kats"

Religion

* A Tabor is a stand/holder for a Monstrance while the Blessed Sacrament is exposed during Eucharistic Adoration, 40 Hours devotion, and other such activities.

Acronym

* Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), a statewide referendum question adopted in Colorado and proposed in Maine

Other

* Tabor (formation), a type of a camp or military formation
* Tabor (Morocco), a type of a military unit in Morocco
* Tabor (instrument), a military snare drum
* Tarrant Tabor, a very large aircraft of the early 20th century

ee also

* Tavor (disambiguation)


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  • TABOR — (Czech Tábor), town in S. Bohemia, Czech Republic. Its hussite founders named it after Mount Tabor in Ereẓ Israel. The first information about Jews there dates from 1572, when a Christian house owner was punished for harboring Jews. A plot for a… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • tabor — ● tabor nom masculin (arabe du Maroc) Corps de troupes marocain, formé de plusieurs goums et équivalant à un bataillon d infanterie. Tabor (mont). V. Thabor. Thabor ou Tabor (mont) montagne de Galilée (Israël), à l O. du Jourdain; 588 m …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Tabor — Tabor, IA U.S. city in Iowa Population (2000): 993 Housing Units (2000): 416 Land area (2000): 1.277398 sq. miles (3.308445 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.277398 sq. miles (3.308445 sq. km)… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • TABOR — TABOR, OU THABOR.     Montagne fameuse dans la Judée; ce nom entre souvent dans le discours familier. Il est faux que cette montagne ait une lieue et demie d élévation au dessus de la plaine, comme le disent plusieurs dictionnaires; il n y a… …   Dictionnaire philosophique de Voltaire

  • Tabor — Ta bor, n. [OF. tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf. Pr. tabor, tanbor, Sp. & Pg. tambor, atambor, It. tamburo; all fr. Ar. & Per. tamb?r a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per. tab[=i]r a drum. Cf. {Tabouret}, {Tambour}.] (Mus.) A small drum used as an… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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