American English pronunciation
How to pronounce jews
IPA transcription: ['dʒuz]
Hear “jews” pronounced
['dʒuz]
Quality: 1.00
['dʒuz]
Quality: 1.00
['dʒuz]
Quality: 1.00
Noun
-
a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
Usage examples
- Other groups of Jews also settled there, and synagogues were built.
- Progressive Jews may also use the mikveh for conversion.
- His parents were Jews of Russian origin and his father worked as a tailor.
- During his early manhood, the Jews were expelled from this area.
- His mother's family were secular Jews.
- For example, Josephus employed scribes to copy his Antiquities of the Jews.
- The wording translates "Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews".
- For other notable Jewish Americans, "see" Lists of American Jews.
- Jews also contributed to botany, geography, medicine, mathematics, poetry and philosophy.
- This spurred the invention of Rejewski's cryptologic bomb and Henryk Zygalski's perforated sheets.