kinder

Definitions

• "children" (Rosten)

Example Sentences

• "Services for the kinder and their families are upstairs at 10:30."

Languages of Origin

Yiddish

Etymology

• קינדער kinder 'children' (singular קינד kind)

Who Uses This

• Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
• Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older

Regions

• North America

Dictionaries

• The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).