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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

The shul has applied for state funds, put in place after Poway, that would help pay for a security guard and other safety measures.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2023

Since he couldn’t go to shul, he told me, he went to the Temple of Dendur instead.

From New York Times Jul. 2, 2021

Would they be able to outrun the dead board of the shul, if it came to it?

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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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