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Definition of Gentile
1. Adjective. Belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples.
2. Noun. A person who does not acknowledge your god.
Generic synonyms: Nonreligious Person
Specialized synonyms: Paynim, Idol Worshiper, Idolater, Idoliser, Idolizer
Derivative terms: Heathen, Pagan, Paganize
3. Noun. A person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus.
4. Noun. A Christian as contrasted with a Jew.
5. Noun. A Christian. "Christians refer to themselves as gentiles"
Definition of Gentile
1. n. One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.
2. a. Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.
Definition of Gentile
1. Noun. A non-Jewish person. ¹
2. Noun. (Mormonism) A non-Mormon person (including Jews). ¹
3. Adjective. non-Jewish ¹
4. Adjective. (Mormonism) non-Mormon (including Jews) ¹
5. Adjective. heathen, pagan ¹
6. Adjective. tribal, national ¹
7. Adjective. of or pertaining to gens or gentes ¹
8. Noun. A non-Jewish person. ¹
9. Noun. (''Latter Day Saint usage'') A non-Mormon person (including Jews). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gentile
1. a non-Jewish person [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gentile
1. One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen. The Hebrews included in the term goyim, or nations, all the tribes of men who had not received the true faith, and were not circumcised. The Christians translated goyim by the L. Gentes, and imitated the Jews in giving the name gentiles to all nations who were neither Jews nor Christians. In civil affairs, the denomination was given to all nations who were not Romans. Synonym: Pagan, heathen. See Pagan. Origin: L. Gentilis belonging to the same clan, stock, race, people, or nation; in opposition to Roman, a foreigner; in opposition to Jew or Christian, a heathen: cf. F. Gentil. See Gentle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentile
Literary usage of Gentile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is dated 22 July, and at the end of August of the same year gentile was ...
Amico Ricci and Milanesi were inaccurate in stating that gentile died after ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"There he showed himself free from the pharisaical and strictly legal views of
the Judaizing opponents of Paul who desired to impose upon gentile Christians ..."
3. Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1896)
"Vittoria in Matenano attribuiti a gentile da Fabriano, in Nuova Rivista ...
Aurelio and Augusto Longhi, L'anno della morte di gentile da Fuori- ano, Fano, ..."
4. History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church: By the Apostles by August Neander, Jonathan Edwards Ryland (1842)
"Till now the pacification concluded at Jerusalem between the Jewish and gentile
Christians had been maintained inviolate. Till now Paul had to contend only ..."
5. The Evolution of Early Christianity: A Genetic Study of First-century by Shirley Jackson Case (1914)
"This result was not attained immediately, nor was the thought of gentile missions
shared alike by all Christians. There were differences of opinion, ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"General gentile readers, as not organized, could not so easily do so. ... It was
an epistle to the gentile converts, as such, in the first place of Laodicea ..."
7. The Work and Teachings of the Apostles by Charles Foster Kent (1916)
"Problems Arising from the Association of Jewish and gentile Christians. ...
It became insistent in the mixed Jewish and gentile churches, where the division ..."
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