as in pagan
a person who does not worship the God of the Bible
a strict sect that believes that fellowship with gentiles should exist only for the purposes of conversion
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Fast forward to now, the actor stars as Noah in Nobody Wants This, a Rabbi who falls in love with a gentile woman Joanne (Kristen Bell) who navigates the ups and downs of love and religious and cultural differences.
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2024
Consider the righteous gentiles during the Holocaust—ordinary people who risked everything to protect Jews from Nazi extermination—and Soviet dissidents who challenged the communist regime, to name a few.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Public debate heated up in 2020 and by 2024, nearly everyone had made the switch: Jews and gentiles; academics and journalists; government officials and private citizens; right-wingers and left-wingers.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
However, Piven’s character Harold May is Jewish, and amid the rise of Hitler in Germany, his ability to pass as a gentile could be a matter of life and death.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2025
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2024
Consider the righteous gentiles during the Holocaust—ordinary people who risked everything to protect Jews from Nazi extermination—and Soviet dissidents who challenged the communist regime, to name a few.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Public debate heated up in 2020 and by 2024, nearly everyone had made the switch: Jews and gentiles; academics and journalists; government officials and private citizens; right-wingers and left-wingers.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
However, Piven’s character Harold May is Jewish, and amid the rise of Hitler in Germany, his ability to pass as a gentile could be a matter of life and death.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gentile
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“Gentile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gentile. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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