cheder
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How to use cheder in a sentence
I was a six-year-old cheder boy, my father a countryman outside Wilna, a householder in a small way.
Yiddish Tales | VariousHe loves the sun, and the Rebbe hangs his caftan across the window, and the cheder is darkened, so that it oppresses the soul.
Yiddish Tales | VariousAnd many more wonderful things Abramtzig tells from the "cheder."
Jewish Children | Sholem Naumovich RabinovichDo you think she did not come frequently to the "cheder" to find out how I was getting on?
Jewish Children | Sholem Naumovich RabinovichNext morning I arrived at "cheder" with my Bible in one hand and my dinner in the other.
Jewish Children | Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
British Dictionary definitions for cheder
heder
/ Hebrew (ˈxɛdɛr, English ˈheɪdə) /
(in Western countries) elementary religious education classes, usually outside normal school hours
more traditionally, a full-time elementary religious school
informal a place of corrective instruction; prison
Origin of cheder
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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