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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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Etymology

Origin of shul

Yiddish: synagogue, from Old High German scuola school 1

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“When I am mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

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

From Salon Oct. 16, 2023

And on the Friday evening after the shooting, the shul received some good news just as it began celebrating Shabbat.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 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

Two doors down, I reached the new shul scheduled to open by summer’s end, a two-story structure of wood with a pitched roof, skeletal as though burnt.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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 Rhys, Ernest

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 Rhys, Ernest

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