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Wandering-jew Wandering Jew

Wandering-Jew is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 564 anagrams from letters in Wandering-jew (-adeegijnnrww).

Definitions for Wandering-jew

noun

1. a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
2. Also, wandering Jew, Wandering-jew [won-der-ing-joo] /ˈwɒn dər ɪŋˈdʒu/ (Show IPA). Also called inch plant. any of various trailing or creeping plants, as Zebrina pendula or Tradescantia fluminensis, having green or variegated leaves: a popular houseplant.

Origin of Wandering-jew

First recorded in 1625-35

Examples for Wandering-jew

I'm sure my god-father must have been the Wandering Jew, or a king's messenger.

Why had he pitched upon his perpetual, strange note of the Wandering Jew?

I thought he must have been as weary of his journeyings as the Wandering Jew.

I must go—I must move on forever and ever, like the Wandering Jew.

Like the people who found the elixir of life, or the Wandering Jew?

That fellow, the cousin Galloway, changes his place of abode like the Wandering Jew.

Egad, its like the Wandering Jew, and the what do you call 'em, vit.

Wandering Jew, the imaginary house of, in the Via Dolorosa, 143.

A man with a thousand friends is worse off than the Wandering Jew.

That's something like the thing that happened to the Wandering Jew.