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Jew    Audio Help   [joo] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite.
2.a person whose religion is Judaism.
3.a subject of the ancient kingdom of Judah.
–adjective
4.Offensive. of Jews; Jewish.
–verb (used with object)
5.(lowercase) Offensive. to bargain sharply with; beat down in price (often fol. by down).
[Origin: 1125–75; ME jewe, giu, gyu, ju < OF juiu, juieu, gyu < LL judéus, L jūdaeus < Gk ioudaǐos < Aram yehūdāi < Heb Yəhūdhī, deriv. of Yəhūdhāh Judah; r. OE iūdéas Jews < LL jūdé(us) + OE -as pl. ending]
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Main Entry:  Jew
Part of Speech:  adjective
Synonyms:  judaic, judaical
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Main Entry:  Jew
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  pharisee, rabbi, hebraism, hebrew, israelite, judahite, judaism, judean, levite, sadducee, semite, yid
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Wandering Jew, in literary and popular legend, a Jew who mocked or mistreated Jesus while he was on his way to the cross and who was condemned therefore to a life of wandering on earth until Judgment Day. The story of this wanderer was first recorded in the chronicles of Roger of Wendover and Matthew of Paris (13th cent.), but not until the early 17th cent. was he identified as a Jew. The story is common in Western Europe, but it presents marked national variations. Among the innumerable treatments of the subject is Shelley's Queen Mab.

See G. K. Anderson, The Legend of the Wandering Jew (1965); G. Hasan-Rokem and A. Dundes, ed., The Wandering Jew: Essays in the Interpretation of a Christian Legend (1986).

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