JEWISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jewish mean? 

• JEWISH (adjective)
  The adjective JEWISH has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion

  Familiarity information: JEWISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JEWISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Jewish; Judaic

Context example:

a Jewish wedding

Pertainym:

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 

Parent institutions include Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

(Alvin J Siteman Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Also includes people of Jewish ethnicity including Sephardic and Ashkenazic.

(Middle Eastern, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also seen in older men of Jewish or Mediterranean descent, or in young men in Africa.

(Kaposi sarcoma, NCI Dictionary)

One of two major ancestral groups of Jewish individuals.

(Ashkenazi Jews, NCI Dictionary)

One of two major ancestral groups of Jewish individuals, comprised of those whose ancestors lived in Eastern Europe (Germany, Poland, Russia).

(Ashkenazi Jew, NCI Dictionary)

The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The study, led by Donald Y.M. Leung, M.D., Ph.D., of National Jewish Health in Denver, examined the top layers of the skin, known as the stratum corneum, in areas with eczema lesions and in adjacent normal-looking skin.

(Scientists identify unique subtype of eczema linked to food allergy, National Institutes of Health)

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)