cheder

[ khey-duhr; English khey-der, hey- ]

noun,plural cha·da·rim [khuh-dah-rim], /xəˈdɑ rɪm/, English che·ders.Yiddish.

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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.

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  • He loves the sun, and the Rebbe hangs his caftan across the window, and the cheder is darkened, so that it oppresses the soul.

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  • And many more wonderful things Abramtzig tells from the "cheder."

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  • Do you think she did not come frequently to the "cheder" to find out how I was getting on?

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  • Next morning I arrived at "cheder" with my Bible in one hand and my dinner in the other.

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British Dictionary definitions for cheder

cheder

heder

/ Hebrew (ˈxɛdɛr, English ˈheɪdə) /


nounplural chadarim (xadaˈriːm) or English cheders Judaism
  1. (in Western countries) elementary religious education classes, usually outside normal school hours

  2. more traditionally, a full-time elementary religious school

  1. informal a place of corrective instruction; prison

Origin of cheder

1
literally: room

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