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shul

American  
[shool, shool] / ʃul, ʃʊl /
Or schul

noun

Yiddish.
  • shuln
    plural
  1. a synagogue.


shul British  
/ ʃuːl /

noun

  1. the Yiddish word for synagogue

"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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Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of shul

Yiddish: synagogue, from Old High German scuola school 1


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“Whether I’m praying at shul, shopping at the grocery store or even dropping my kids off at school, people come up to me to express their concerns with the mayor’s comments,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The scene was a far cry from the one at our old conservative shul in Danbury, CT.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2023

Bacall and his team had gone shul to shul, trying to avert panic as news of the attack spread through the rumor mill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

They turned to Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, the founding head of a large Orthodox shul in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement less than a mile north of Champlain Towers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

Some of them Boaz had known forever, like Rabbi Maimon, who he had met the first time he came for the children’s classes and had been in the shul since its founding.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Afterward, in getting of your riches, and in using of 'em, ye shuln alway have three things in your heart, that is to say, our Lord God, conscience, and good name.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys

And yet saith this Pamphilus, moreover, that they that ben bond and thrall of linage shuln be made worthy and noble by riches.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys

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