Dictionary

Judaist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (General-American) audio
• /ˈd͡ʒuːˌdeɪ.ɪst/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈd͡ʒuːdi.ɪst/ (General-American)
• /ˈd͡ʒuːdeɪ.ɪst/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Juda(ism) + -ist.

Meanings

1. (Judaism, uncommon) One who believes and practices Judaism.
   • All Judaists — those who practice the religion, Judaism — are Jews, but not all Jews are Judaists. 2000, Jacob Neusner, chapter 1, in The Blackwell Companion to Judaism, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:
   • When the falling star was predicted as poisoning with his wormwood the rivers and fountains, he was not only described as poisoning the sources of instruction, and the youth who drank at them. An allusion was obviously intended to the waters of Hemero-baptism, which doubtless formed a prominent part of the Thebutic system, and one of the characters of its numerous adherents, daily baptism having long previously been exacted from the zealous Judaist.* 1838, Rev. Joseph Adam Stephenson, The Christology of the Old and New Testaments: an Historical Development of the Predicted Occurrences of Holy Scripture, volume I, London: J. G. and F. Rivington, page 284:
   • Moreover, is not Cicero, according to Dr. J.’s principles, a pretty good Christian, or, to speak more chronologically, a spiritual Judaist? 1824, The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, volume XXI., Hackney: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, published 1826, page 8:

Forms

Antonyms

goy · gentile

Hypernyms

monotheist · Judeo-Christian · Abrahamist

Synonyms

Jew

Translations (16)

ru иуде́йка (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · uk юде́й (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · it giudaista (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · io judaisto (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · uk юде́йка (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · lad djudaizante (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · pt judaísta (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · yi פֿרומע (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · yi פֿרומער (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · es judaísta (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · uk іуде́йка (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · yi שומר־מיצוות (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · ru иуде́й (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · fr judaïste (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · uk іуде́й (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew) · eo judismano (practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew)