Synonyms for
Gentile
Definition
a person who is not Jewish
Synonyms & similar words
Example sentences
- My neighbor is a gentile and we get along just fine.
- The majority of people in this country are gentiles.
- I asked my teacher if she was a gentile, and she said yes.
- In some cultures, it's common to marry someone who is not a gentile.
- My dad is a gentile, but he respects my Jewish faith.
Quotes
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
I'm very fond of the folk songs of the southern Appalachians, and I find that gentile music has the same structural principles as Appalachian music.
It's the old, old story of the choice between the gentile and the Jew, and it's still being played out. It was at the core of the presidential election of 2000, and it promises to be at the core of the upcoming presidential contest in 2004.