jew
/d͡ʒuː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member or descendant of the Jewish people.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Both Jews and Muslims refrain from eating pork."
- "Many Jews eat bagels."
- "Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a Christian is?"
- "The wrongs of a Jew are not lightly forgotten, for the race can both love and hate."
- "A young Australian Jew engaged on the trip of a lifetime finally arrives in the homeland of his people."
- "The local gazetteers of Xiangfu district, Kaifeng prefecture, and Henan province⁵ mention a surprisingly large number of Kaifeng Jews and their successes in Chinese society with dates."
Etymology
From Middle English Jew, Giu, Giw, Ju, from Old French juiu, Giu, gyu, from Latin iūdaeus (“Judean (i.e. Jew)”), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Ἰουδά (Ioudá), Ἰούδας (Ioúdas, “Judah, Judas, Jude”) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “male given name, Yehuda; Judah, Judea”). Doublet of Yid. Displaced Old English Iūdēisċ.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Jew, juiu, iūdaeus, Ἰουδαῖος, יְהוּדָה
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒuː/
- British English: /d͡ʒuː/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.
Inflected Forms
Jews (plural)
Jewes (archaic, plural)
Joo (alternative, derogatory)
more Jew (comparative)
most Jew (superlative)
Jews (present, singular)
Jewing (participle, present)
Jewed (participle, past)
Jewed (past)