Judaist
English
Noun
Judaist (plural Judaists)
- (Judaism, uncommon) One who believes and practices Judaism.
- Synonym: Jew
- Antonyms: gentile, goy
- Hypernyms: Abrahamist, Judeo-Christian, monotheist
- Hyponyms: halakhist, Orthodox Jew, rabbi
- 2000, Jacob Neusner, chapter 1, in The Blackwell Companion to Judaism, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:
- All Judaists — those who practice the religion, Judaism — are Jews, but not all Jews are Judaists.
Usage notes
- Sometimes used instead of Jew to distinguish between secular and religious Jews.
Translations
practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Judaist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /judaˈɪst/
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Noun
Judaist m (weak, genitive Judaisten, plural Judaisten, feminine Judaistin)
- A specialist in Jewish studies. (male or of unspecified gender)
Declension
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