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JEWRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Jewry mean?
• JEWRY (noun)
The noun JEWRY has 1 sense:
1. Jews collectively
Familiarity information: JEWRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Jews collectively
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Jewry" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Meronyms (parts of "Jewry"):
Hebraism; Jewish religion; Judaism (Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud)
Meronyms (members of "Jewry"):
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)
Context examples
I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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