Jew

noun
🔊/dʒuː/
🔊/dʒuː/
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  1. a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who come from the ancient Hebrew people of Israel; a person who believes in and practises Judaism犹太人;犹太教徒
    • He was born a Jew in 1st-century Palestine.他是犹太人,出生于 1 世纪的巴勒斯坦。
    • His family are all observant Jews.他全家人都是严守教规的犹太教徒。
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • devout
    • observant
    • pious
    verb + Jew
    • marry
    • be born
    • become
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French juiu, via Latin from Greek Ioudaios, via Aramaic from Hebrew yěhūd̲ī, from yěhūd̲āh ‘Judah’.