English Dictionary

NON-JEW

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Overview

NON-JEW (noun)
  The noun NON-JEW has 1 sense:

1. a Christian as contrasted with a Jewplay

  Familiarity information: NON-JEW used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


NON-JEW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A Christian as contrasted with a Jew

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gentile; goy; non-Jew

Hypernyms ("non-Jew" is a kind of...):

Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "non-Jew"):

shegetz (an offensive term for non-Jewish young man)


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