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Synonyms

shul

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

noun

Yiddish.

plural

shuln
  1. a synagogue.


shul British  
/ ʃuːl /

noun

  1. the Yiddish word for synagogue

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Etymology

Origin of shul

Yiddish: synagogue, from Old High German scuola school 1

Example Sentences

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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.

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Boaz glanced back at the shul, and even though no army of the living dead burst through the doors, he wanted to put as much distance between that building and the ring as possible.

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When he woke up Shabbat morning, Boaz realized that he had less than fifteen minutes to make himself presentable and get to shul at a time that was acceptably late.

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He wasn’t a member of the shul’s chevra kadisha, the burial society, but he was the first to ask them for details about crime scenes or to offer his opinion on the deceased, as if it mattered.

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“It’s in the air. From the moment you walked into the shul, I could sense it. I’ve never felt something like this since dying.”

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