shul

or schul

[ shool, shool ]

noun

, Yiddish.

, plural shuln [shooln, sh, oo, ln],

1. a synagogue.

shul

/ ʃuːl /

noun

1. the Yiddish word for synagogue

Word History and Origins

Origin of shul¹

Yiddish: synagogue, from Old High German scuola school ¹

Example Sentences

About a week before the collapse, Svia Bension, Efraim Stefansky and Zushi Litkowski — who met through the Shul of Bal Harbour — had started a young professionals organization called EZS Events.

From Washington Post

Now if he had problems, and felt he was abused he had me or the Rabbi in his Shul to discuss it with.

From The Daily Beast

Ask around—ask at shul, ask your family, ask any Jewish college kids you know.

From The Daily Beast

There was a guy at our shul who transgressed the bounds of the acceptable.

From The Daily Beast

The plaza in front of the Wall was something like a shrine, but not much like a shul.

From The Daily Beast

Almost all of them by then had become Hartman's acolytes, and I began to come regularly to his shul on Shabbat.

From The Daily Beast

There was scarcely a Minyan present at the evening services in the Shul.

From Project Gutenberg

He had been seen in Shul at the morning service, and from there he had gone home, but after that he could not be traced further.

From Project Gutenberg

Ye shul retourne or have your recours to the Iuge; explanatory of the F. text—'tu recourras au iuge.'

From Project Gutenberg

Then, after Shul, he went with them to drink a glass of wine at Heimann's, or lunch with them at Schfer's.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• holy place
• house of worship
• mosque
• shrine
• synagogue
• temple