shulgoer
/ˈʃulˌɡoʊəɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who attends shul (“a synagogue”); a practising Jew.
Example Sentences
- "[H]e was invited, on his first visit to my synagogue in St John's Wood, to choose between sitting in the wardens' box or occupying a prominent front row seat. As he is orthodox and a regular shulgoer, this was quite a quandary. He decided to sit in the wardens' box."
- "He knew that some of his congregants, especially the regular Shulgoers (Synagogue worshipers), would not buy their meat from the local non-Jewish butcher, and came instead to Stern."
- "Having greeters at the entrance of the worship space not only sends a message of welcome, but it allows newcomers to enter a little less nervously, take an appropriate seat, and ease into the worship experience itself. This is often an awkward moment, even for the veteran shulgoer; how much the more so for a new visitor, a non-Jew, or a recent Jew by choice."
- "If you're an occasional shul-goer and have not yet found a home, ask your friends, people you feel are on the same wavelength as you. Go shul hopping!"
- "Although Jonathan states that "schools and shuls", which seem to always appear as a pair, are entities with which South African Jews identify, most of my interlocutors did not seem to be avid shul'''goers."
Etymology
From shul (“Ashkenazi synagogue”) + goer. Shul is borrowed from Yiddish שול (shul, “school; synagogue”), from Old High German scuola (“school”), from Latin schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “place for giving lectures, lecture hall, school”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to overpower; to take hold of”). Piecewise doublet of schoolgoer.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʃulˌɡoʊəɹ/
- British English: /ˈʃuːlˌɡəʊə/