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
And at Beth Jacob, an Orthodox shul in Beverly Hills, membership would run them $2,630 for the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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
They turned to Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, the founding head of a large Orthodox shul in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement less than a mile north of Champlain Towers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
Misha brushed off his trousers impatiently, and then said, “So, shul? It starts at nine o’clock. I’ll come get you from your room at eight thirty?”
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 Rhys, Ernest
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 Rhys, Ernest
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