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Word: Shtetl
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Yiddish, ‘little town’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈʃtɛtl
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe
Short Definition:small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe
Examples:- a small shtetl in Belarus where Jay's ancestors lived
- childhood was shtetl life transplanted, Brooklyn coloured by Old World reverberations
- the transformation of gay literature, its emergence from the shtetl, continues apace
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