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Meanings of jew in English

A follower of Judaism.

hebrewisraelitehymiekikesheeny

Word for Jewish people in many languages that derives from Hebrew "Yehudi"

yehudi
Usage of jew in English
1
And the Saviour was a jew and his father was a jew.
Ulysses
2
Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw the unbroken kitchen window.
Ulysses
3
He called me a jew, and in a heated fashion, offensively.
Ulysses
4
No jew except Jesus ever wielded greater power than Solomon.
Three philosophies of life
5
Now he's really what they call a dirty jew.
Ulysses
6
It was good to be Hungarian, good to be a Hungarian Jew.
Gratitude
7
This was common knowledge to every Jew in the city, including Moseh.
The confusion
8
Nothing that would make you think straight away, of course, a Jew.
Melnitz
9
Gone were the days of Israel's elite, the heyday of the Jew.
Demon: a memoir
10
A Jew, Jean-Paul Sartre said, is someone other people call a Jew.
The Guardian
11
But a Jew going to a meeting of Nazis becomes something different.
The Guardian
12
This organization was serious, not social, and did include an occasional Jew.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed america
13
He knew the Jew well enough to feel sure of his mercy.
The Assistant
14
No one-neither Jew nor Gentile-had written, and it was back to work.
All the sad young literary men
15
But now the Germans are offering ten thousand marks for every Jew.
And the rat laughed
16
Messala offered him his hand; the Jew walked on through the gateway.
Ben–Hur
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Jew across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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