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charoses

charoses is the alternative form of haroseth.

Meaning of haroseth

Noun

haroseth (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism) A paste made of fruits and nuts eaten at Passover, representing the mortar mixed by the Israelites during their slavery in Egypt.
    • Then the chief rabbi again took bread and brake it and gave it to all that were withhim, and dipped it into the dish with the haroseth and the lettuce.1887, The Living Age, volume 173, page 320

Origin of charoses

Borrowed from Yiddish חרוסת (kharoyses).

Questions about charoses

What is charoses the alternative form of?
Charoses is the alternative form of haroseth.

Words near charoses in the dictionary

  1. charophytes
  2. charophytic
  3. charopid
  4. charopids
  5. Charos
  6. charoses
  7. charoset
  8. charoseth
  9. charosets
  10. charpai
  11. charpais

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Adapted from Wiktionary: charoses (page history and authors); haroseth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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