kosher

Examples

• All

• It's a strictly kosher dining hall, and yet it's also a very expansive space that does not feel particularly parochial.

  Harvard University

• This is a kosher restaurant.

  The Believer (2001)

• Uh, we also have a fine selection of kosher meat.

  Playing Mona Lisa (2000)

• Do you eat kosher food, Michael?

  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

• Are you sure this is kosher?

  It Couldn't Happen Here (1988)

• From now on it's only kosher franks for me.

  Life with Mikey (1993)

• I am sitting in Goldstein's eating a kosher hot dog with Diane and loving every minute of it.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Within the Jewish world, social occasions always require attention to differences in kosher observance.

  Academic text (1999)

• Although Ed and Sarah have a kosher kitchen, they wash their milk and meat dishes together in the dishwasher.

  Fiction book (1996)

• My grandparents were kosher butchers in a town called Fleischmanns in upstate New York.

  Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

K

kasher

vskosher

9.0

Made according to Jewish law so people can eat it

has identical meaning but is a spelling variant

Antonyms

N

nonkosher

8.1

Food or dishes not allowed by Jewish food rules

Compounds

K

kosher certification

1 5.3

A label on food that shows it follows Jewish rules about what you can eat

K

Kosher Nostra

• Slur

9.9

A group of Jewish American criminals who worked together in organized crime in the early 1900s

K

kosher product

3.2

Food prepared according to Jewish religious rules so people who follow them can eat it

Surface Forms

Etymology