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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of Jews or Judaism.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or relating to the Jews; Jewish in condition or tendency.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Jews.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to the Jews, their culture or their religion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the Jews or their culture or religion
  • adjective of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin Iūdaicus, from Greek Ioudaikos, from Greek Ioudaios, Jew; see Jew.]

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Latin, from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Yehuda, "Judah") +‎ -ic.

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