Jewish

Following the religion of Judaism.

Adjective

  1. 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...

    Synonyms: Judaic

    Antonyms: gentile goyish non-Jewish un-Jewish

    Hypernyms: Abrahamic

    Coordinate Terms: Samaritan

  2. 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...
    • As per the old Jewish joke “ask two Jews, get three opinions”, there’s room on this seven-strong bill (plus [Hannah] Gadsby) for at least that many different perspectives on gender – including some impish scepticism...

    Synonyms: heebish Israelite Jew Jewy kikeish kikey Yiddish

    Antonyms: gentile goyish non-Jewish un-Jewish

    Hypernyms: Hebraic Hebrew

    Coordinate Terms: Samaritan

  3. 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...
  4. 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....

Origin

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.

Forms

Jewisher more Jewish Jewishest most Jewish Jooish Juish juish

Derived

anti-Jewish Blewish Bluish crypto-Jewish is the Pope Jewish Jewish Alps Jewish Autonomous Oblast 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

Proper noun

  1. 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)
  2. 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...
    • A Jew wearing a cap with a visor and a red scarf around his neck is answering a Jewish woman who has addressed him in Polish: “One speaks Jewish aboard the Jewish tram”. Another butts in: “What about in Hebrew?” “In...

Related

Israeli Evrite Ivrite

Noun

  1. 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:

Forms

Jewishes