Definitions for minyans

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minyans min·yan

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

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

Minyans is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in minyans (aimnnsy).

Definitions for minyans

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 minyans

minyān literally, number

Examples for minyans

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

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

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

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.

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

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.