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MISHPOCHA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mishpocha mean?
• MISHPOCHA (noun)
The noun MISHPOCHA has 1 sense:
1. (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends)
Familiarity information: MISHPOCHA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
mishpachah; mishpocha
Context example:
she invited the whole mishpocha
Hypernyms ("mishpocha" is a kind of...):
clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe (group of people related by blood or marriage)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
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