heder

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

noun,plural ha·da·rim [khuh-dah-rim], /xəˈdɑ rɪm/, English he·ders.Yiddish.
  1. (especially in Europe) a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.

  2. (in the U.S.) Talmud Torah (def. 2).

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How to use heder in a sentence

  • Non vincant heder bracchia flexiles, Conch non superent oscula dulcia, Emanet pariter sudor et ossibus Grato murmure ab intimis.

  • Is it credible that a Clarendon Press editor should be ignorant that ivydoctarum heder prmia frontiumis the emblem of the poet?

    Ephemera Critica | John Churton Collins
  • The boys came to heder before nine in the morning, and remained until eight or nine in the evening.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin
  • Five years old when he entered heder, at eleven he was already a yeshibah bahur—a student in the seminary.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin
  • Joseph was the best Jewish boy that ever was born, but he hated to go to heder, so he had to be whipped, of course.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin

British Dictionary definitions for heder

heder

/ Hebrew (ˈxɛdɛr, English ˈheɪdə) /


nounplural hadarim (xadaˈriːm)
  1. a variant spelling of cheder

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