gentile

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Of course having a gentile to push elevator buttons for you seems silly to me as well.

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Quick take

a person who does not acknowledge your god

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gentile gathered in one view.

noun

a person who does not acknowledge your god

noun

a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus

noun

a Christian as contrasted with a Jew

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gentile.

noun

a person who does not acknowledge your god

noun

a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus

noun

a Christian as contrasted with a Jew

noun

a Christian; "Christians refer to themselves as gentiles"

adjective

belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples

Example sentences

Of course having a gentile to push elevator buttons for you seems silly to me as well.

As a Christian and gentile, I don't understand what it is like to be discriminated against on so many levels.

Jesus was crucified for political reasons, for Rome couldn't let a gentile gather a following.

Doesn't matter if jew or gentile thinks a particular ethnicity is physically ugly or ugly in manners, etc.

Live the life of a gentile, pursuing one's own interests and hobbies, and having the freedom to seek pleasure as the desire strikes is an intoxicating concept.

Let a gentile apply to a Jewish school, even if his father is Jewish and he practices Judaism they will turn him down if his mother is not ethnically Jewish.

I wouldn't be accepted into an Orthodox congregation except by conversion, because I am considered a gentile in their eyes.

I dunno, about the only thing I know of the word is it means someone who isn't jewish, which is a very wide range of people, so I find it hard to believe that jewish people in general are worrying that gentiles in general are looking with suspicion on the unchurched, I mean, what about all the buddhists, for instance?