Judaism

noun
🔊/ˈdʒuːdeɪɪzəm/
🔊/ˈdʒuːdiɪzəm/, 🔊/ˈdʒuːdeɪɪzəm/
[uncountable]
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  1. the religion of the Jewish people, based mainly on the first five books of the Bible and the Talmud犹太教Topics Religion and festivalsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • conservative
    • Hasidic
    • modern
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    Word Originfrom late Latin Judaismus, from Greek Ioudaïsmos, from Ioudaios, via Aramaic from Hebrew yěhūd̲ī, from yěhūd̲āh ‘Judah’.