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GOY (goyim)

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Irregular inflected form: goyim  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does goy mean? 

GOY (noun)
  The noun GOY has 1 sense:

1. a Christian as contrasted with a Jewplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GOY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A Christian as contrasted with a Jew

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gentile; goy; non-Jew

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

Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)

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

shegetz (an offensive term for non-Jewish young man)


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