Definitions for Jew

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Jew Jew

Spelling: [joo]

IPA: /dʒu/

Jew is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in Jew (ejw).

Definitions for Jew

noun

1. one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite.
2. a person whose religion is Judaism.
3. a subject of the ancient kingdom of Judah.

adjective

1. Offensive. of Jews; Jewish.

verb (used with object)

1. (lowercase) Offensive. to bargain sharply with; beat down in price (often followed by down).

Origin of Jew

1125-75; Middle English jewe, giu, gyu, ju Old French juiu, juieu, gyu Late Latin judēus, Latin jūdaeus Greek ioudaîos Aramaic yehūdāi Hebrew Yəhūdhī, derivative of Yəhūdhāh Examples for Jew

But the enemy of the new emirs is neither the Jew nor the Christian, it is the godless militant defending secularism.

The family affection of the Jew, his kindness to his kindred, have become proverbial.

To me, being a Jew carries a low-grade paranoia that is both an overreaction and entirely justified, based on history.

From that moment on, no Jew dared to question the authority of Moses.

There may be one or two more somewhere else in Deutschland, but I will forever think of Friedel as the last German Jew.

It is a classic anti-Semitic canard to punish any Jew for the perceived crimes of all of them.

I'll teach a set of lawyers to come playing the Jew to my young men.

They were not sure whether she were most Saracen, gipsy, or Jew.

Somehow, finding a Jew to blame makes up sort of deep symmetry that allows people to comfort themselves that they have an answer.

Was he your companion, the man with a hurt arm who looked like a Jew?