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MENSCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mensch mean?
• MENSCH (noun)
The noun MENSCH has 1 sense:
1. a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics
Familiarity information: MENSCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A decent responsible person with admirable characteristics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
mensch; mensh
Hypernyms ("mensch" is a kind of...):
good person (a person who is good to other people)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
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