Definitions for Jewish
ˈdʒu ɪʃJewish

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Jewish, Judaic(adj)

   of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion

   "He is Jewish"; "a Jewish wedding"

GCIDE(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Jewish(a.)

   Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Judaism.

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Jewish(Adjective)

   Being a Jew, or relating to Jews, their religion or their culture.

2. Jewish(Adjective)

   Yiddish

3. Jewish(ProperNoun)

   The Yiddish language.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Jewish(adj)

   of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Jewish' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4132

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Jewish' in Adjectives Frequency: #557

How to pronounce Jewish?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say Jewish in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Jewish in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Jewish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Jewish in a Sentence

1. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   I haven't changed my policy. I never retracted my speech in Bar-Ilan University six years ago calling for a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state, what has changed is the reality.

2. Elie Wiesel:

   I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

3. Harry Reid:

   As our relationship built, her parents came to the realization that it could be something serious and it was a very difficult time, the last few years of courtship, because they of course wanted her to meet somebody Jewish.

4. Yonatan Adler:

   Although chalkstone vessels are well-known at many Jewish sites throughout the country.

5. Jacqueline van Maarsen:

   I was 11 when the Germans invaded Holland. I remember seeing the planes flying overhead and sensing the great agitation of my parents. I thought we might get bombed or we might not get enough food, but the idea that we faced another threat because we were Jewish didn’t even enter my head. My mother was a Parisian Catholic, and although my father had registered us as Jewish in Amsterdam in 1938 — he wanted us to be part of the Jewish community, like the rest of his Dutch family — my older sister and I weren’t really brought up as Jewish.

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