shul
Americannoun
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shuln
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
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
Bacall and his team had gone shul to shul, trying to avert panic as news of the attack spread through the rumor mill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
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
Since he couldn’t go to shul, he told me, he went to the Temple of Dendur instead.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
“I have some things to get in order. I’ll be in shul all day once I’m done up here; don’t you worry about that.”
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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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