non-Jewish

adjective

non-Jew·​ish ˌnän-ˈjü-ish 

: not Jewish : not being, relating to, or characteristic of the Jews

Since only about 10,000 Jews live in the city, the restaurant must attract non-Jewish patrons to survive.

—Julia M. Klein

non-Jew

ˌnän-ˈjü 

noun

plural non-Jews

Of the seven or eight people present, we were the only non-Jews.

—Clifford Thompson

Examples of non-Jewish in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Just 4 percent of non-Jewish Canadians agree that Jews are largely to blame for the negative consequences of globalization, but that figure rises to 28 percent among Canadian Muslims, according to a survey conducted by the University of Toronto sociologist Robert Brym. —Jesse Brown, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026

Royal sells to Total Wine, one of the largest wine chains in the country, which has expanded its Israeli wine offerings and actively promotes them to a broad, largely non-Jewish customer base. —Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026

The big toy that season was a pliable putty invented twenty years earlier by a man with the distinctly non-Jewish name of McVicker to clean coal soot from wallpaper, then rebranded, for children, as Play-Doh. —Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026

The park was a stereotype of Jewish and non-Jewish families who, for the most part, played separately and nicely. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for non-Jewish

• bluish
• jewish