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View synonyms for Jewish

Jewish

[ joo-ish ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Jews or Judaism:

    Jewish customs.

  2. Informal. Yiddish.


noun

  1. Informal. Yiddish.

Jewish

/ ˈdʒuːɪʃ /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Jews
“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


noun

  1. a less common word for Yiddish
“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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Derived Forms

  • ˈJewishness, noun
  • ˈJewishly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • Jewish·ly adverb
  • anti-Jewish adjective
  • half-Jewish adjective
  • non-Jewish adjective
  • pre-Jewish adjective
  • pro-Jewish adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Jewish1

1540–50; Jew + -ish 1; compare Old English iudēisc < Late Latin iudē ( us ) Jew + Old English -isc -ish 1
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Example Sentences

Soon after, Lewis’ mother packed up the family and moved to the predominantly Jewish and immigrant Maxwell Street area on the Near West Side.

In her personal training business, Lawson had Jewish clients and a Jewish girlfriend.

It would be a game-changer for a huge segment of the Northern Virginia Jewish community.

For 10 days, she went about her normal life, including attending a Jewish shiva gathering at a Rockville retirement community.

In other words, the long-term problem isn’t that Greene had once claimed that a laser controlled by a Jewish cabal had caused forest fires in California to build a high-speed rail system.

“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.

Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx.

Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

It marked a groundbreaking moment in how the country viewed Jews, especially Jewish women.

Like most Jewish mothers, Myerson thought her daughter could do better.

No Jewish historian nor scientist mentioned the rending of the veil of the temple, nor the rising of the saints from the dead.

God invites all to keep his commandments: the Gentiles that keep them shall be the people of God: the Jewish pastors are reproved.

Had this stupendous miracle no effect upon the Jewish priests who had crucified Christ as an impostor?

Bonaparte issued a decree calling an assembly of Jewish deputies, for the purpose of forming a Sanhedrim.

Special classes have been opened at the gymnasium for the religious instruction of Jewish pupils.

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