Bris

/bɹɪs/

Synonyms for "bris" (11 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(3 words)

Strong matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
brit milahbrithcircumcision ceremony

Related words (5)

Noun(5 words)
circumcision ritecovenant ritemilahrite of passagesocial ritual

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

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More general

5 entries
ceremonycircumcisionreligious riteritualsocial practice

More specific

4 entries
blessingbrit milahmilahnaming ceremony

Collocations

6 entries
Ashkenazi bris ritualbris milah ceremonybrit milah ritualcircumcision ceremonyeight days after birthfamily bris celebration

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries
bris milahbrit milah

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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To be good, pâte brisée should be light and flaky.

Source: tatoeba (1551543)

The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.

Source: wiktionary

Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.

Source: wiktionary

However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

Source: wiktionary

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