cheder
Americannoun
plural
chadarim,plural
chedersnoun
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(in Western countries) elementary religious education classes, usually outside normal school hours
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more traditionally, a full-time elementary religious school
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informal a place of corrective instruction; prison
Etymology
Origin of cheder
literally: room
Example Sentences
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Kecel had no yeshiva, so Menahem gained an elementary knowledge of Hebrew and Jewish law and ritual at a cheder, a Jewish primary school.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022
One of twelve brothers & sisters, he went to school in the one-room village cheder, where the rabbi's goat stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I had gone with her to the cheder nebilin, when I had used my sepet-ram to save life, she had perceived in me feelings and impulses to which all her own nature responded.
From A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by De Mille, James
Very often the passage which he thus made me read was a lesson I had studied under one of his predecessors, but I never gave him away Every cheder had its king.
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan, Abraham
"We were fond of each other as children, when he first began his lessons at cheder," replied the girl, earnestly; "but it was only recently that he declared his love."
From Rabbi and Priest A Story by Goldsmith, Milton
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