Jew
noun/dʒuː/
/dʒuː/
- a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who come from the ancient Hebrew people of Israel; a person who believes in and practises Judaism
- He was born a Jew in 1st-century Palestine.
- His family are all observant Jews.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- devout
- observant
- pious
- …
- marry
- be born
- become
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French juiu, via Latin from Greek Ioudaios, via Aramaic from Hebrew yěhūd̲ī, from yěhūd̲āh ‘Judah’.Definitions on the go
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