shtetl
[shtet-l, shtey-tl]
- (formerly) a Jewish village or small-town community in eastern Europe.
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He was the manager where I was working, an old-fashioned Jew from the Polish shtetl.
shtetl
- (formerly) a small Jewish community in Eastern Europe
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Word Origin for shtetl
Yiddish, little town
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Word Origin and History for shtetl
Jewish small town or village in Eastern Europe, 1949, from Yiddish, literally "little town," from diminutive of German Stadt "city, town," from Old High German stat "place," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).
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