ASHKENAZI (ashkenazim)

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Irregular inflected form: ashkenazim   

• ASHKENAZI (noun)
  The noun ASHKENAZI has 1 sense:

1. a Jew of eastern European or German descent

  Familiarity information: ASHKENAZI used as a noun is very rare.

• ASHKENAZI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Jew of eastern European or German descent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Ashkenazi" is a kind of...):

Hebrew; Israelite; Jew (a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties)

 Context examples 

Most Jews living in the United States are of Ashkenazi descent.

(Ashkenazi Jews, NCI Dictionary)

Ashkenazi Jews, also called Ashkenazim, are Jews who are descendants of Jews from Germany, Poland, Austria and Eastern Europe.

(Ashkenazi Jew, NCI Thesaurus)

Most Jews living in the United States are Ashkenazi Jews.

(Ashkenazi Jew, NCI Dictionary)

Germline genetic testing method targeted to detect a specific mutation (such as a deleterious MSH2 mutation previously identified in a family), panel of mutations (such as the 3 BRCA mutations comprising the founder mutation panel for individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry) or type of mutation (such as a large deletions or insertions in the BRCA1 gene).

(Mutation Analysis, NCI Dictionary)

The ancestors of Ashkenazi Jews lived in Central and Eastern Europe (e.g., Germany, Poland, Russia).

(Ashkenazi Jews, NCI Dictionary)