Jewish

adjective

1. 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.

2. 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 Christianity.

   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 from Canadian comic DeAnne Smith, who complains about “getting they/them’d against my will since 2005”.

3. 3

   datedGreedy, 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."

4. 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. Grandpa did not hail from Haifa—he was a Jewish humanist, a spiritual, believing Jew, who complained not in an antique tongue called Hebrew but in colorful, rich, vernacular Yiddish.

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noun

1. 1

   A Jew.

   The Statue of Liberty. A French gift with a poem made by a Jewish.

proper noun

1. 1

   informalThe Hebrew language.

   I can't speak Jewish; I can't even understand it.

2. 2

   informalThe Yiddish language.

   We believe that although he speaks Jewish, he speaks Russian quite badly and pretentiously.

   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 market who “has such yiddisher taam, I call him Rabbi Zino.”

Forms

plural

Jewishes

comparative

Jewisher, more Jewish

superlative

Jewishest, most Jewish