Jewish
/ˈd͡ʒuː.ɪʃ/
Jewish adjective: following the religion of Judaism.
Adjective
Jewish (comparative Jewisher or more Jewish, superlative Jewishest or most Jewish)
- 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.2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN
- Synonyms:
- Judaic
- Antonyms:
- gentile, goyish, non-Jewish, un-Jewish
- 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.2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi
- Antonyms:
- gentile, goyish, non-Jewish, un-Jewish
- Greedy, miserly.
- "Vanity!" ſays ſhe, haughtily, "What is vanity in you, ſir, is propriety in me. You aſk a Jewiſh price for it, Mr. Graves; but have it I will, if only to ſpite Mr. Eſmond."1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume III, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 155
- Yiddish.
- The roots of American Jewry are not in the Middle East but in Europe—their Jewish style, their strong Jewish words, their strong nostalgia, their actual, weighable history, all this issues from their European origins. Grandpa did not hail from Haifa—he was a Jewish humanist, a spiritual, believing...1993, Philip Roth, Operation Shylock, page 47
Noun
Jewish (plural Jewishes)
- A Jew.
- The Statue of Liberty. A French gift with a poem made by a Jewish.2022 November 26, ArgieSocDem, Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022
Proper noun
Jewish
- The Hebrew language.
- I can't speak Jewish; I can't even understand it.quoted in 1947, William Lloyd Warner, Leo Srole, The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups (page 232)
- The Yiddish language.
- We believe that although he speaks Jewish, he speaks Russian quite badly and pretentiously.2005 November 17, John Doyle Klier, Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57
- After a day servicing commercial refrigeration through the five boroughs, Dad would bring home a story of a Chinese waiter on Second Avenue who “speaks Jewish like a Galitzianer,” or of a Mafioso in a Queens fruit market who “has such yiddisher taam, I call him Rabbi Zino.”2009, Martin S. Jaffee, The End of Jewish Radar: Snapshots of a Postethnic American Judaism, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 115
Jewish meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Jewish in Hindi
- of or relating to a Jew or Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture
- यहूदी yahūdī
Jewish in Tamil
- யூத, யூதர்களின், யூத இன
Jewish in Urdu
- of or relating to a Jew or Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture
- یَہُودی yahūdī
Jewish in Bengali
- of or relating to a Jew or Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture
- ইহুদি ihudi
More languagesFewer languages
- Jewish in Punjabi
- ਯਹੂਦੀ yahūdī, یَہُودی yahūdī
- Jewish in Gujarati
- યહૂદી yahūdī
- Jewish in Pashto
- يهودي yahudí
- Jewish in Arabic
- يَهُودِيّ yahūdiyy
- Jewish in Malay
- Yahudi
- Jewish in Indonesian
- Yahudi
- Jewish in Thai
- ยิว yiu
- Jewish in Vietnamese
- Do thái
- Jewish in Myanmar
- ဂျူး gyu:
Synonyms of Jewish
Antonyms
Forms of Jewish
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | Jewisher |
| comparative | more Jewish |
| superlative | Jewishest |
| superlative | most Jewish |
| alternative form (humorous, derogatory) | Jooish |
| alternative form (humorous, derogatory) | Juish |
| alternative form (humorous, derogatory) | juish |
| Noun | |
| plural | Jewishes |
Origin of Jewish
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.
Words formed from Jewish
- anti-Jewish
- Blewish
- Bluish
- crypto-Jewish
- is the Pope Jewish
- Jewish Alps
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Jewish Autonomous Region
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
- Jewish badge
- Jewish Bible
- Jewish Bolshevism
- Jewish calendar
- Jewish champagne
- Jewish colony
- Jewish English
- Jewish flag
- Jewish hereness
- Jewishish
- Jewish lightning
- Jewish Literary Aramaic
- Jewishly
- Jewishness
- Jewish nose
- Jewish occupation government
- Jewish overdrive
- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
- Jewish penicillin
- Jewish piano
- Jewish Question
- Jewish rye bread
- Jewish Science
- Jewish Standard Time
- Jewish state
- Jewish tax
- Jewish typewriter
- Jewishy
- Jewish Zionism
- non-Jewish
- Orthodox Jewish
- pro-Jewish
- pseudo-Jewish
- quasi-Jewish
- semi-Jewish
- un-Jewish
- unjewish
Phrases with Jewish
Questions about Jewish
- What does Jewish mean?
- Jewish means following the religion of Judaism.
- What is Jewish in Hindi?
- Jewish in Hindi is यहूदी (yahūdī). See Jewish meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Jewish?
- Jewish can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Jewish?
- Jewish is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɪʃ/.
Words near Jewish in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Jewish (page history and authors); Jewish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); યહૂદી (Gujarati) (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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