as in pagan
a person who does not worship the God of the Bible
a strict sect that believes that fellowship with gentiles should exist only for the purposes of conversion
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Recent Examples of gentile
Fast forward to now, the actor stars as Noah in Nobody Wants This, a Rabbi who falls in love with a gentile woman Joanne (Kristen Bell) who navigates the ups and downs of love and religious and cultural differences.
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2024
Consider the righteous gentiles during the Holocaust—ordinary people who risked everything to protect Jews from Nazi extermination—and Soviet dissidents who challenged the communist regime, to name a few.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Public debate heated up in 2020 and by 2024, nearly everyone had made the switch: Jews and gentiles; academics and journalists; government officials and private citizens; right-wingers and left-wingers.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
However, Piven’s character Harold May is Jewish, and amid the rise of Hitler in Germany, his ability to pass as a gentile could be a matter of life and death.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2025
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2024
Consider the righteous gentiles during the Holocaust—ordinary people who risked everything to protect Jews from Nazi extermination—and Soviet dissidents who challenged the communist regime, to name a few.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Public debate heated up in 2020 and by 2024, nearly everyone had made the switch: Jews and gentiles; academics and journalists; government officials and private citizens; right-wingers and left-wingers.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
However, Piven’s character Harold May is Jewish, and amid the rise of Hitler in Germany, his ability to pass as a gentile could be a matter of life and death.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gentile
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Church officials decided to recognize Dec. 25 as his birthday, probably to coincide with the date of pagan festivals in an attempt to get pagans to accept Christianity as the official religion.—
Atlanta Life,
ajc,
10 Nov. 2017
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While plague stalks the land, paranoid peasants swap cautionary folk tales about evil spirits, pagans, Jews and other outsiders.—
Stephen Dalton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Oct. 2017
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“Gentile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gentile. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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