Definitions for Minyan

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Minyan min·yan

Spelling: [Sephardic Hebrew meen-yahn; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English

IPA: /Sephardic Hebrew minˈyɑn; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English ˈmɪn yən/

Minyan is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in Minyan (aimnny).

Definitions for Minyan

noun

1. the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present to conduct a communal religious service, traditionally a minimum of 10 Jewish males over 13 years of age.
2. such a group.
3. Minyans, Also, Minyae [min-yee] /ˈmɪn yi/ (Show IPA). the descendants of Minyas who inhabited Orchomenus in Boeotia and Iolcus in Thessaly.

adjective

1. descended from Minyas.
2. being or pertaining to a gray, wheel-thrown pottery produced in ancient Greece during the early part of the Helladic period, c2000 b.c.

Origin of Minyan

minyān literally, number

Examples for Minyan

Then he left his home and fled from horse-rearing Argos and came to minyan Orchomenus.

"The minyan is there," and Mattes pointed his finger at the thatched roofs shining in the sunset.

Date uncertain, but in Boeotia evidence that it ended before rise of 'minyan' ware.

Dusratta was a minyan and his power seems to have been the chief in Armenia at this time.

He was buried with full Jewish rites, a "minyan" from the battalion attending.

There was scarcely a minyan present at the evening services in the Shul.

It seemed to Feivke he had been at the minyan a long, long time, and he felt as though some great misfortune had befallen him.