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Word: Jew
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English: from Old French juiu, via Latin from Greek Ioudaios, via Aramaic from Hebrew yĕhūḏī, from yĕhūḏāh ‘Judah’ (see Judah)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
dʒuː
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham
Short Definition:member of people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism
Examples:- Levin is a practicing Orthodox Jew
- the king of Persia allowed the Jews to return to their homeland
