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shul

American  
[shool, shool] / ʃul, ʃʊl /
Or schul

noun

Yiddish.
  • shuln
    plural
  1. a synagogue.


shul British  
/ ʃuːl /

noun

  1. the Yiddish word for synagogue

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of shul

Yiddish: synagogue, from Old High German scuola school 1

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“When I am mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

In the meantime, the life of the shul goes on.

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

Two stories high, the unfinished shul stood level with the brick buildings surrounding it.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

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