a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who come from the ancient Hebrew people of Israel; a person who believes in and practises Judaism 犹太人;犹太教徒 He was born a Jew in 1st-century Palestine. 他是犹太人,出生于 1 世纪的巴勒斯坦。 His family are all observant Jews. 他全家人都是严守教规的犹太教徒。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- devout
- observant
- pious
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- marry
- be born
- become
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Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French juiu, via Latin from Greek Ioudaios, via Aramaic from Hebrew yěhūd̲ī, from yěhūd̲āh ‘Judah’.