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noun, plural Jew·ries.
- the Jewish people collectively.
- a district inhabited mainly by Jews; ghetto.
- Archaic. Judea.
noun plural -ries
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- Jews collectively
- the Jewish religion or culture
- archaic (sometimes found in street names in England) a quarter of a town inhabited by Jews
- the Jewry (in some anti-semitic literature) the Jews conceived of as an organized force seeking world domination
- archaic the land of Judaea
c.1200, Jeuerie “ghetto, the Jewish district in a town,” from Anglo-French Juerie, Old French Juierie (13c.; Modern French Juiverie); see Jew + -ery. Early 14c. as “Jews collectively;” mid-14c. as “the land of the Jews, Judea.”