kinder
Pronunciations
kinder | (KIN-dur) | listen |
Definitions
n. "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)
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
- 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).
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Notes
See also kinderlach.
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