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Jewry

/ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi/US/ˈd͡ʒuːɹi/

Jewry noun: jewish people considered collectively.

Noun

Jewry (countable and uncountable, plural Jewries)

  1. Jewish people considered collectively.
    • Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry.
    • Darkly it [the Kabbalah] stood in their [Samuel David Luzzatto, Moritz Steinschneide, etc.] path, the ally of forces and tendencies in whose rejection pride was taken by a Jewry which, in Steinschneider’s words, regarded it as its chief task to make a decent exit from the world.1941, Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 3rd revised edition, published 1995, page 1
  2. (historical) The quarter of a town or city inhabited either partially or exclusively by Jews; historically, its main buildings were the synagogue, the ritual bath or mikve, the kosher-oriented butchery and bakery, etc.
    • The Nazis who murdered Katzenelson also burned the entire Jewry of Radoshkowitz—Mane’s birthplace and burialplace in the vicinity of Vilna.1973, Eisig Silberschlag, “Notes”, in From Renaissance to Renaissance: Hebrew Literature from 1492-1970, New York: Ktav Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 389
  3. (obsolete) Judaism.
  4. (obsolete) The land of the Jews; Judea.
    • And all the londe off iewry, and they of Jerusalem went out unto hym, and were all baptised of hym in the ryver Jordan [...].1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark
    • Josephus reporteth, that whilst the Romane warres continued in Jurie, passing by a place where certain Jewes had been crucified three dayes before, he knew thre of his friends amongst them[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Proper noun

Jewry

  1. A surname.

Jewry meaning in Urdu and Arabic

Jewry in Urdu

Jews in general, the Jewish population of a locale
یَہُود yahūd

Jewry in Arabic

Jews in general, the Jewish population of a locale
يَهُود yahūd

Synonyms of Jewry

Forms of Jewry

pluralJewries

Origin of Jewry

From Middle English Jewery, from Old French juerie. By surface analysis, Jew + -ry.

Words that rhyme with Jewry

Questions about Jewry

What does Jewry mean?
Jewry means jewish people considered collectively.
What is Jewry in Urdu?
Jewry in Urdu is یَہُود (yahūd). See Jewry meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is Jewry?
Jewry can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jewry?
Jewry is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of Jewry?
The plural of Jewry is Jewries.

Words near Jewry in the dictionary

  1. Jewrags
  2. Jewries
  3. Jewrope
  4. Jewropean
  5. Jewrusalem
  6. Jewry
  7. jews
  8. jews down
  9. jews harp
  10. jews harps
  11. Jews Lagoon

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