beynashmoshes

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Definitions

  • n. Twilight, dusk.

Example Sentences

  • "Even though these are only my personal memoirs, in transmitting them I am aware that they are also a biography of our generation, one which was born in a transitional (beynashmoshes 'twilight') epoch and was dominated by great ideals while being fated to witness the bankruptcy of almost all of them." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y בין־השמשות beyn-ashmoshes

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      baynashmoshes

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