Gentile
Meaning of Gentile
- not Jewish.
a predominantly Gentile audience
- relating to or indicating a nation or clan, especially a gens.
noun
a person who is not Jewish.
late Middle English: from Latin gentilis ‘of a family or nation, of the same clan’ (used in the Vulgate to refer to non-Jews), from gens, gent- ‘family, race’, from the root of gignere ‘beget’.
Information about Gentile
- The plural form of Gentile is: Gentiles.
- Languages in which Gentile is used:
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Hyphenation of Gentile
Gen-tile
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- Gentile is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Gentile synonyms
Meaning heathen:
Meaning non-Jew:
Translation of Gentile
Anagrams of Gentile
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