Jewry

//ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Jewish people considered collectively. countable, uncountable

    "Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry."

  2. 2
    Jews collectively wordnet
  3. 3
    The quarter of a town or city inhabited either partially or exclusively by Jews; historically, its main buildings were the synagogue, the ritual bath or mikve, the kosher-oriented butchery and bakery, etc. countable, historical, uncountable

    "The Nazis who murdered Katzenelson also burned the entire Jewry of Radoshkowitz—Mane’s birthplace and burialplace in the vicinity of Vilna."

  4. 4
    Judaism. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  5. 5
    The land of the Jews; Judea. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "And all the londe off iewry, and they of Jerusalem went out unto hym, and were all baptised of hym in the ryver Jordan [...]."

Synonyms

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israeljewdomjewdomklal yisrael

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"Does Netanyahu really represent all of world Jewry?"

Etymology

From Middle English Jewery, from Old French juerie. By surface analysis, Jew + -ry.

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