chevra

Pronunciations

chevra

(CHEV-ruh)

Definitions

• n. "Society; close-knit group" (Yiddish).
  

Example Sentences

• "I feel like I have a real chevra in my neighborhood."
  

• "I'm so glad that your kids have found themselves a nice chevre." (Glinert)
  

• "Do you know those chevre over there?" (Glinert)
  

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Yiddish

Etymology

• Yiddish חבֿרה khevre
  

Who Uses This

• Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

Regions

• North America

Dictionaries

• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

Alternative Spellings

chevrah, chevre, khevre, chevreh, chevrei, hevrei, hevra, hevrah, khevra, khevrah