jewish
IPA: dʒˈuɪʃ
Root Word: Jewish
noun
- (non-native speakers' English, proscribed) A Jew.
- (informal, proscribed) The Yiddish or Hebrew language.
adjective
- Being a Jew, or relating to Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture.
- Yiddish.
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Examples of "jewish" in Sentences
- He was of the Jewish faith.
- The actual enhances the Jewish guilt.
- Mailman was the son of Jewish immigrants.
- It serves the needs of the Jewish diaspora.
- It is similar to the Jewish angelic hierarchy.
- That is the epoch of the modern Jewish calendar.
- The Jewish quarter is at the bottom of the image.
- Claim that 'The Jewish Chronicle' is disreputable.
- It is an anachronism for the time of the Jewish Revolt.
- Harrison fords a entertain jewish -- not as well shabby!
- European countries have recently seen attempts to proscribe Jewish religious practice.
- Incidentally, do you deliberately use the term jewish nationalism rather than Israeli nationalism?
- Lg – I hate zionists as much as the anybody – but dissing somebody just because they’re jewish is just stupid.
- Israel almost suffered its own civil war when it reigned in the so called jewish "terrorists" - the irgun etc.
- The reason I find the term jewish nationalism strange, is because I don’t think you can really have nationalism without a nation state.
- July 17th, 2006 at 2: 42 pm freeman says: anyone who critisizes Irael a racist and further anyone who isn’t jewish is a closet racist mighty?
- And not only did he critized the Dems (we know he ment Obama), but he tried to link him to the most hated person in jewish history, by saying the name of Hilter during his critizism.
- When I was younger I heard the term jewish and jew used as an insult quite frequently, although most of those using it didn't really have any idea what a jew was elementary school central valley of calif.