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Jewish English

Jewish English proper noun: the interrelated socio-ethnolects of the English language used by the Jews of Anglophonic countries, typically peppered with religious or cultural influences from Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish languages (though usually not to the same extent as Yeshivish, which is essentially English but with extensive use of Aramaic, Hebrew and Yiddish terminology related to halacha (Jewish law) and Gemara learning).

Proper noun

Jewish English

  1. The interrelated socio-ethnolects of the English language used by the Jews of Anglophonic countries, typically peppered with religious or cultural influences from Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish languages (though usually not to the same extent as Yeshivish, which is essentially English but with extensive use of Aramaic, Hebrew and Yiddish terminology related to halacha (Jewish law) and Gemara learning).

Adjective

Jewish English (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to, produced by, or originating from the Jews of England or Britain

Questions about Jewish English

What does Jewish English mean?
Jewish English means the interrelated socio-ethnolects of the English language used by the Jews of Anglophonic countries, typically peppered with religious or cultural influences from Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish languages (though usually not to the same extent as Yeshivish, which is essentially English but with extensive use of Aramaic, Hebrew and Yiddish terminology related to halacha (Jewish law) and Gemara learning).
What part of speech is Jewish English?
Jewish English can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near Jewish English in the dictionary

  1. Jewish Bible
  2. Jewish Bolshevism
  3. Jewish calendar
  4. Jewish champagne
  5. Jewish colony
  6. Jewish English
  7. Jewish flag
  8. Jewish flags
  9. Jewish hereness
  10. Jewish lightning
  11. Jewish Literary Aramaic

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