CHOSEN PEOPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chosen people mean? 

• CHOSEN PEOPLE (noun)
  The noun CHOSEN PEOPLE has 1 sense:

1. any people believing themselves to be chosen by God

  Familiarity information: CHOSEN PEOPLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOSEN PEOPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any people believing themselves to be chosen by God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("chosen people" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chosen people"):

Hebrews; Israelites (the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19))