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Jewish

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Jew·ish  (jsh)
adj.
Of or relating to the Jews or their culture or religion. See Usage Note at Jew.

Jewish·ly adv.
Jewish·ness n.

Jewish [ˈdʒuːɪʃ]
adj
(Social Science / Peoples) of, relating to, or characteristic of Jews
n
(Linguistics / Languages) a less common word for Yiddish
Jewishly  adv
Jewishness  n
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Adj.1.Jewish - of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion; "He is Jewish"; "a Jewish wedding"
Translations
Jewish [ˈdʒuːɪʃ] ADJjudío

Jewish [ˈdʒuːɪʃ] adjjuif*(juive)

Jewish
adjjüdisch

Jewish [ˈdʒuːɪʃ] adj (mother, people) → ebreo/a; (festival, religion, tradition) → ebraico/a
Jewish joke battuta improntata al tipico umorismo degli ebrei
Jewish [ˈdʒuːɪʃ] adj (mother, people) → ebreo/a; (festival, religion, tradition) → ebraico/a
Jewish joke battuta improntata al tipico umorismo degli ebrei

Jewish عِبري židovský jødisk jüdisch εβραϊκός judío juutalainen juif židovski ebraico ユダヤ人の 유태인의 Joods jødisk żydowski judaico еврейский judisk เกี่ยวกับยิว Yahudi thuộc người Do thái 犹太人的


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In order to prevent this dreadful calamity they both set about inventing some plan which would throw suspicion on some one else, and at last they made up their minds that they could do no better than select a Jewish doctor who lived close by as the author of the crime.
And the doors are arched with the peculiar arch we see in Moorish pictures; the floors are laid in varicolored diamond flags; in tesselated, many-colored porcelain squares wrought in the furnaces of Fez; in red tiles and broad bricks that time cannot wear; there is no furniture in the rooms (of Jewish dwellings) save divans--what there is in Moorish ones no man may know; within their sacred walls no Christian dog can enter.
Without making any inquiry, she darted upstairs into a drawing-room, where a matron of good presence, with features of the finest Jewish type, sat reading.
 
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