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Zayde

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    grandfather Jewish

    "Perhaps, in these circumstances, he would greet his granddaughter as a zayde should, with love and affection."

  2. 2
    elderly man (as a term of respect) Jewish

    "The zayde is, as the hoary formula demands, gruff on the outside but wonderful to his horse and David..."

Etymology

From Yiddish זיידע (zeyde, “grandfather”).

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