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gentile
[ jen-tahyl ]
adjective
- of or relating to any people not Jewish.
- Christian, as distinguished from Jewish.
- Mormon Church. not Mormon.
- heathen or pagan.
- (of a linguistic expression) expressing nationality or local origins.
- of or relating to a tribe, clan, people, nation, etc.
noun
- a person who is not Jewish, especially a Christian.
- (among Mormons) a person who is not a Mormon.
- a heathen or pagan.
gentile
1/ ˈɛԳٲɪ /
adjective
- denoting an adjective or proper noun used to designate a place or the inhabitants of a place, as Spanish and Spaniard
- of or relating to a tribe or people
Gentile
2/ ˈɛԳٲɪ /
noun
- a person who is not a Jew
- a Christian, as contrasted with a Jew
- a person who is not a member of one's own church: used esp by Mormons
- a heathen or pagan
adjective
- of or relating to a race or religion that is not Jewish
- Christian, as contrasted with Jewish
- not being a member of one's own church: used esp by Mormons
- pagan or heathen
Gentile
3/ ˈپː /
noun
- GentileGiovanni18751944MItalianPHILOSOPHY: philosopherPOLITICS: politicianPOLITICS: statesman Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). 1875–1944, Italian Idealist philosopher and Fascist politician: minister of education (1922–24)
Gentile
- Someone who is not a Jew (see also Jews ). “The nations” is the common expression in the Old Testament for non-Jews as a group, and a Gentile is a person belonging to “the nations.”
Notes
Other yvlog Forms
- ԴDz·t adjective noun
- -ұt adjective noun
- ܲ·t adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of gentile1
Example Sentences
Noah was initially written to be a lot more like Tikhman, leaving Levitan unsure whether the stakes between a Jew and gentile who fall in love were high enough for a TV audience.
That’s why I used to like gentile delis where I could get pork.
Now, because it occurs around the biggest holiday here for our gentile friends, we make a much bigger deal out of it.
According to the Torah — for gentiles, the first five books of the so-called Hebrew Bible — Jews celebrate the holiday Yom Kippur to honor the anniversary of when God forgave them.
“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.
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