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Sephardim

Sephardim is the plural of Sephardi.

Meaning of Sephardi

Noun

Sephardi (plural Sephardis or Sephardim or Sepharadim)

  1. (strictly) A Jew of Iberian ancestry, whose traditional language is Ladino.
    • In a move aimed at avoiding the mistakes made by many of the Jewish institutions in which students have grown up, the guidebook encourages students creating new Jewish organizations to ensure that “JOCSM (Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi) feel included and comfortable,” to maintain a “[s]upportive...2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents
  2. (Israel) Any Jew following the Sephardic law and customs, instead of the Ashkenazic.

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Forms of Sephardim

alternative formSepharadim

Questions about Sephardim

What is Sephardim the plural of?
Sephardim is the plural of Sephardi.

Words near Sephardim in the dictionary

  1. sephacryl
  2. Sepharad
  3. Sepharadim
  4. Sephardi
  5. Sephardic
  6. Sephardim
  7. Sephardis
  8. Sephared
  9. sepharose
  10. Sepharvite
  11. Sepharvites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sephardim (page history and authors); Sephardi (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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