klal tuer

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Definitions

  • n. A community leader.

Example Sentences

  • "What klal-tuer and gezelshaftlekher tuer were to the realms of community and society, the kultur-tuer became for the newly valorized and autonomous zone of culture." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y כּלל־טוער klal-tuer

      • 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

      klal-tuer

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