gentile
/ˈdʒɛntʌɪl
/adjective
1 (Gentile) Not Jewish: a predominantly Gentile audience...
- Why was there controversy about observing the Jewish Sabbath among Jewish and Gentile Christians in the church at Colossae?
- Of course in early Christianity one of the great struggles between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians involved the food laws in Judaism.
- Mark expected Jewish and Gentile Christians to use however much time remained for the evangelization of the nations.
1.1(Of a person) not belonging to one’s own religious community.
1.2 historical Non-Mormon.
2chiefly Anthropology Relating to or indicating a nation or clan, especially a gens.
noun
(Gentile) A person who is not Jewish.Again we must say that this was strictly a Jewish affair, no Gentiles being involved; no, not even the Roman guard....
- Also the congregations in these synagogues were Jews, Gentiles sat outside the main room on one side and the women and children on the other side.
- I think that this information would be of interest to Gentiles as well as Jews.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin gentilis 'of a family or nation, of the same clan' (used in the Vulgate to refer to non-Jews), from gens, gent- 'family, race', from the root of gignere 'beget'.