Amish

[ ah-mish, am-ish ]

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adjective

of or relating to any of the strict Mennonite groups, chiefly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Canada, descended from the followers of Jakob Ammann, a Swiss Mennonite bishop of the 17th century.

Amish

/ ˈɑːmɪʃ; ˈæ- /

of or relating to a US and Canadian Mennonite sect that traces its origin to Jakob Amman

Amish

A group of Protestants who broke away from the Mennonites in the seventeenth century. The Amish live in close communities, farm for a living, and do without many modern conveniences, such as telephones, automobiles, and tractor-drawn plows.

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Some of the Pennsylvania Dutch are Amish.

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Origin of Amish¹

1835–45, Americanism; < German amisch, after Jakob Ammann; -ish ¹

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Origin of Amish¹

C19: from German Amisch, after Jakob Amman, 17th-century Swiss Mennonite bishop

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Last summer, Palin joined members of Jews for Sarah in Pennsylvania Amish country for a traditional Sabbath celebration.

[The Amish] are completely cut off from the outside world.

John McCain may have one last, best hope for winning the White House: the Amish.

Aaron has flirted with our century; he and his wife learned some very un-Amish skills at the Homestead School.

The skill that makes Aaron worth his fare out here, though, is an Amish skill, and the rarest one of all.

Five years from spring, other Amish folk would come to homestead—what a barn-raising they'd have!

This confection was embossed with a hundred intricate designs, rich with silver; un-Amish as a Christmas tree.

Though American enough, maize had been a foreigner to the first Amish farmers, and still carried history in its name.

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