jew
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)jews
- a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious tiesSynonyms: HebrewIsraeliteType of actor, doerKinds Zionist, Conservative Jew, Levite, Sephardi, Orthodox Jew, kike, Pharisee, Wandering Jew, Reform Jew, Zealot +4 moreExamples Jesus, LotMember of Jewry
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Translations
Noun a Jewish person
- Spanish
- judío
- French
- juif
- German
- Jude
- Italian
- ebreo
- Portuguese
- judeu
- Turkish
- Yahudi
- Arabic
- يهودي yahūdiyy
- Japanese
- ユダヤ人 Yudaya-jin
- Dutch
- jood
- Polish
- Żyd
26 more languages
- Swedish
- jude
- Greek
- Ιουδαίος Ioudaíos
- Korean
- 유대인 yudaein
- Indonesian
- yahudi
- Hungarian
- zsidó
- Portuguese (PT)
- judeu
- Albanian
- hebre
- Catalan
- jueu
- Czech
- Žid
- Danish
- jøde
- Esperanto
- judo
- Estonian
- juut
- Finnish
- juutalainen
- Hebrew
- יְהוּדִי yehudí
- Icelandic
- gyðingur
- Kurdish
- cihû
- Latvian
- ebrejs
- Lithuanian
- žydas
- Norwegian
- jøde
- Romanian
- evreu
- Scottish Gaelic
- Iùdhach
- Serbo-Croatian
- Židov
- Slovak
- Žid
- Swahili
- Myahudi
- Welsh
- Iddew
- Yiddish
- ייִד yid
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. Juis, pl., F. Juif, L. Judaeus, Gr. Ἰουδαῖος, fr. Ἰουδαία the country of the Jews, Judea, fr. Heb. Yĕhūdāh Judah, son of Jacob. Cf. Judaic.
1. Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite.
2. An adherent of Judaism.
Jew's frankincense, gum styrax, or benzoin. — Jew's mallow Botany, an annual herb (Corchorus olitorius) cultivated in Syria and Egypt as a pot herb, and in India for its fiber. — Jew's pitch, asphaltum; bitumen. — The Wandering Jew, an imaginary personage, who, for his cruelty to Christ during his passion, is doomed to wander on the earth till Christ's second coming. — Wandering Jew, any of several house plants of the genera Zebrina and Tradescantia having white-striped leaves, especially the creeping plants Zebrina pendula and Tradescantia fluminensis.
Of or pertaining to Jews; Jewish; — usually considered offensive. offensive
To bargain down (a person) in price; as, I jewed him down to ten dollars. offensive
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC, GCIDE editors