Judaism
noun/ˈdʒuːdeɪɪzəm/
/ˈdʒuːdiɪzəm/, /ˈdʒuːdeɪɪzəm/
[uncountable]- the religion of the Jewish people, based mainly on the first five books of the Bible and the TalmudTopics Religion and festivalsb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- conservative
- Hasidic
- modern
- …
Word Originfrom late Latin Judaismus, from Greek Ioudaïsmos, from Ioudaios, via Aramaic from Hebrew yěhūd̲ī, from yěhūd̲āh ‘Judah’.Definitions on the go
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