JEWESS

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• JEWESS (noun)
  The noun JEWESS has 1 sense:

1. a woman who is a Jew

  Familiarity information: JEWESS used as a noun is very rare.

• JEWESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who is a Jew

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Jewess" is a kind of...):

Hebrew; Israelite; Jew (a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties)

Instance hyponyms:

Lot's wife ((Old Testament) when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his family were told to flee without looking back; Lot's wife was disobedient and was immediately changed into a pillar of salt)

Esther ((Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim))

Jezebel (wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC))

Blessed Virgin; Madonna; Mary; The Virgin; Virgin Mary (the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics)

 Context examples 

But when I'd shouted "Hello" several times in vain an argument broke out behind a partition and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)