rebbe

[ reb-uh ]

nounYiddish.
  1. a teacher in a Jewish school.

  2. (often initial capital letter) a title of respect for the leader of a Hasidic group.

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How to use rebbe in a sentence

  • When times were bad, and her husband came home with his goods unsold, she borrowed and begged, till the rebbe's fee was produced.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin
  • Uncles and cousins came, and perhaps my brother's rebbe, to examine his pupil in the hearing of the family.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin
  • The rebbe put his hands behind his coat tails, declining the traveller's hospitality.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin
  • I continued reading by the hour, after the rebbe was gone, though I understood about one word in ten.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin
  • We sat one on each side of the rebbe, reading the Hebrew sentences turn and turn about.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin

British Dictionary definitions for Rebbe

Rebbe

/ (ˈrɛbə) /


nounJudaism
  1. the usually dynastic leader of a Chassidic sect

  2. an individual's chosen spiritual mentor

Origin of Rebbe

1
Yiddish, from Hebrew rabbī rabbi

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