jewish
//ˈd͡ʒuː.ɪʃ//
Forms
- Comparative
- jewisher
- Superlative
- jewishest
- Plural
- jewishes
Definitions
1.Following the religion of Judaism.
- There are many Jewish people in France.
- Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.
2.Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicities or cultures.
- I tried some traditional Jewish food yesterday.
- The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians, women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.
3.Yiddish.
1.A Jew.
- The Statue of Liberty. A French gift with a poem made by a Jewish.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1924
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Jew + -ish.
Compare Middle English Judewissh (“Jewish”), Old English Iūdēisċ (“Jewish”), Dutch joodsch, joods (“Jewish”), German jüdisch (“Jewish”), Danish jødisk (“Jewish”), Swedish judisk (“Jewish”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (judaiwisks, “Jewish”).
See also Yiddish.