shul
/ʃʊl/
shul noun: an Ashkenazi synagogue.
Noun
- An Ashkenazi synagogue.
- That Asher's mind would have also been on Elohim, at this moment receiving prayers in Asher's shul, goes without saying.2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 146
- Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who...2019 September 6, Jordan Weissman, “How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism”, in Slate, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020
Forms of shul
| plural | shuls |
|---|---|
| plural | shuln |
| alternative form | schul |
| alternative form | schule |
| alternative form | shule |
| alternative form (dated) | shool |
Origin of shul
Borrowed from Yiddish שול (shul, “school, synagogue”), from Old High German scuola (“school”), from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of schola and school.
Words formed from shul
Words that rhyme with shul
42 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ghoul
- spool
- doole
- pule
- yule
- buhl
- huemul
- Juul
- misrule
- poule
- rocking stool
- you'll
- 6-2-1 rule
- adverse interest rule
- aemule
- babul
- befool
- bool
- cagoule
- crool
- emule
- firefighter's rule
- gigajoule
- grool
- gule
- hool
- hydrocool
- joule
- kewl
- kilojoule
- megajoule
- mewl
- pasta fazool
- petajoule
- retool
- snool
- sool
- terajoule
- torchecul
- tulle
- uncool
- yottajoule
Questions about shul
- What does shul mean?
- Shul means an Ashkenazi synagogue.
- What part of speech is shul?
- Shul is a noun.
- How do you pronounce shul?
- Shul is pronounced /ʃʊl/.
- What is the plural of shul?
- The plural of shul is shuls.
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Source and license
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