pharisees

Meaning of pharisees

plural noun

a member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity.

Old English fariseus, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek Pharisaios, from Aramaic prīšayyā ‘separated ones’ (related to Hebrew pārūš ‘separated’).

Information about pharisees

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of pharisees is: pharisee.
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Hyphenation of pharisees

phar-isees

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • pharisees is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of pharisees

apheresis

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