Jew vs American - What's the difference?
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An adherent of Judaism.
A person who claims a cultural or ancestral connection to the Jewish people (see secular Jew).
* William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (Act III, scene I)
An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas; an American Indian. (Now chiefly with qualifying word.)
* 2007 , James Twitchell, Shopping for God, p 47
* 1711 , (Joseph Addison), The Spectator , 56.1:
* 2012 , (Jonathan Keates), ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review , 402:
An inhabitant of the Americas. More often this is specified as either North American'', ''Central American'' or ''South American.
Originally, a native or inhabitant of the British North American colonies of European descent; now, a person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United States of America.
* 2008 , Chris Moss, The Guardian , 9 Aug 2008:
The English language as spoken in the USA; American English.
* 1942', We sat down in the central square and drank coffee and a man came up and spoke to us in '''American . — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 756)
Of or pertaining to the Americas. More often this is specified as either "North American" or "South American."
Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, .
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As a verb jew
is (offensive) to bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud.As an adjective american is
american.As a noun american is
an american man.jew
English
(Jew)Noun
(en noun)- I don't have a religion, but my sister is a Jew and my brother is a Wiccan.
- Hath not a Jew' eyes? Hath not a ' Jew hands, organs
- dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
- the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
- to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
- warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
- as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
- If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
- do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Usage notes
* The Jewish community overall has a common religion, culture, identity, and ethnicity, but individual Jews do not necessarily share all of these; therefore, a person might be a Jew by one standpoint but not by another. * Additionally, there are some religious groups that identify themselves as part of Judaism, but that other Jewish groups might not; hence, use of the term Jew often depends on the speaker's opinions. * The noun Jew'' is not offensive, and the overwhelming majority of English-speaking Jews use the noun ''Jew to identify themselves. * That said, it has become offensive for historical reasons to use the word Jew'' attributively, in modifying another noun (as in "Jew lawyer"); the adjective ''Jewish is preferred for this purpose. * Additionally, the derived verbs jew'' and ''jew down are considered offensive, as they reflect stereotypes considered offensive.Hypernyms
* religionist, Abrahamist. theist, creationistCoordinate terms
*Synonyms
* Jewess (qualifier) * Hebrew (dated) * Yahudi (quranic) * Israelite (dated) * kike (derogatory) * Moses (qualifier) * yid (derogatory) * heeb (derogatory) * sheeny (derogatory) * hymie (derogatory)Hyponyms
*halakhistDerived terms
* Wandering Jew * Jewhatred * Jewsrael *ex-Jewamerican
English
Noun
(en noun)- And in the efforts of American Muslims to achieve a more market-savvy Islam. Just look at Wicca
- The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.
- Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy’. Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘American ’.
- Every American' s origin is, historically speaking, by immigration, if scientific speculation that points to a human origin in Asia and a migration to the New World over frozen Bering Strait turns out to be correct.
- They say Americans don't walk. Well, they do in the Navajo Nation - because even if northern Arizona has gigabytes of photogenic vistas, getting out of the car is the only way to get your boots covered in desert dust and soak up the silence.
Synonyms
*Western Hemispherian, New Worlder * AmericuntDerived terms
* Central American * North American * South American * AmericanoidProper noun
(en proper noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- Thanksgiving is an American tradition.
- He married an American''' woman in order to get an '''American passport.
- Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.