shul
Americannoun
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shuln
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of shul
Yiddish: synagogue, from Old High German scuola school 1
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“Whether I’m praying at shul, shopping at the grocery store or even dropping my kids off at school, people come up to me to express their concerns with the mayor’s comments,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
And on the Friday evening after the shooting, the shul received some good news just as it began celebrating Shabbat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Do they look like the families in “Armageddon Time” and “The Fabelmans,” who celebrate Hanukkah and eat bagels and lox but don’t go to shul regularly?
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Back from shul, he was breaking fast with a bagel and cream cheese, holding forth at the head of the table in our Michigan dining room.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2021
“Yakov, wait,” I cried as he strode toward the ruined shul.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Afterward, in getting of your riches, and in using of 'em, ye shuln alway have three things in your heart, that is to say, our Lord God, conscience, and good name.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
And yet saith this Pamphilus, moreover, that they that ben bond and thrall of linage shuln be made worthy and noble by riches.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
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