Usually means: Language of Ashkenazi Jews, expressive.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Yiddish:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. yiddish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Yiddish, Yiddish: Merriam-Webster
  3. Yiddish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Yiddish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Yiddish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Yiddish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yiddish, yiddish: Wordnik
  8. Yiddish, yiddish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Yiddish: Wiktionary
  10. Yiddish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Yiddish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Yiddish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yiddish: Dictionary.com
  14. Yiddish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Yiddish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Yiddish: Rhymezone
  17. Yiddish: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. yiddish: FreeDictionary.org
  19. yiddish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Yiddish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yiddish (language), Yiddish: Encyclopedia

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yiddish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
▸ noun:  A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.

Similar:
Hebraic, Orthodox Jewish, Hebraistic, Russian, German, synagogical, synagogal, Yinglish, Zionistic, orthodox, more...

Opposite:
non-Yiddish, non-Jewish, non-Semitic

Types:
Yinglish, Litvish, Sefardic, more...

Phrases:
yiddish language, Yiddish theatre, yiddish song, yiddish drama, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, more...

Adjectives:
original, little, modern, literary, plain, fluent, good, standard, english, pure, colloquial


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Similar:
Hebraic, Orthodox Jewish, Hebraistic, Russian, German, synagogical, synagogal, Yinglish, Zionistic, orthodox, more...

Opposite:
non-Yiddish, non-Jewish, non-Semitic

Types:
Yinglish, Litvish, Sefardic, more...

Phrases:
yiddish language, Yiddish theatre, yiddish song, yiddish drama, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Yiddish words used in English, Yiddish orthography, Yiddish dialects, Yiddish grammar, Yiddish phonology, more...

Adjectives:
original, little, modern, literary, plain, fluent, good, standard, english, pure, colloquial



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