Jews

¹ Cultural  

1. The Israelites, particularly after their return from captivity in Babylon (see also Babylon) about five hundred years before the birth of Jesus; at that time, the Israelites were established as a religious group, founded on the Mosaic law, not simply a national group.

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Jews ² Cultural  

1. Adherents of Judaism.

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When the Jewish nation was destroyed by the Romans in the year a.d. 70 and the Jews were scattered throughout the world, their religious beliefs and customs allowed them to remain one people.

Example Sentences

The holy site is also separated into an area for Jews and one for Muslims, each with a separate entrance.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

Vance has also gone out of his way to define anti-semitism only as the explicit hatred of Jews.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2026

Below the compound, alongside its supporting Western Wall, Jews pray and mourn the destruction by the Romans of the Jewish Temple on the platform above, almost 2,000 years ago.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

And while it details Jewish participation in, and influence on, global soccer, it also challenges the cliché that Jews were intellectuals, artists and laborers but not athletes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026

We knew that Willem had found hiding places at the beginning of the occupation for the German Jews who had been living in his house.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom