kosher
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈkoʊʃər/
- While some Jews keep kosher very strictly, most depart from it.
Examples
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I was planning on cooking a nice kosher meal for you and your folks.
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We thought we might open a little kosher deli or a picture museum.
Fiction book (1997) -
Sit down, Michael, and tell us all about kosher food, Michael.
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Now, is that kosher enough for you?
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You're gonna need salt, rock salt, kosher only.
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In Denmark, however, kosher practice varies too widely to produce anything like cohesion.
Academic text (1999) -
As a result, Jews who insist on keeping kosher tend to find themselves singled out on social occasions.
Academic text (1999) -
The observation of kosher laws effectively delineates the boundaries of a limited Jewish world.
Academic text (1999) -
Black-eyed peas and corn dodgers, kosher hot dogs and Boston baked beans, we got them all.
Fiction book (1993) -
I was planning on cooking a nice kosher meal for you and your folks.
Synonyms
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3.2
Food prepared according to Jewish religious rules so people who follow them can eat it
Antonyms
Compounds
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5.3
A label on food that shows it follows Jewish rules about what you can eat
1
3.2
Food prepared according to Jewish religious rules so people who follow them can eat it
- Slur
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9.9
A group of Jewish American criminals who worked together in organized crime in the early 1900s
How Kosher
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kosher comes from the Hebrew word kashér, which means 'fit' or 'proper', so as a noun kosher means food that is 'fit' to eat because it follows Jewish rules.