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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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.
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Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
This Curb Christmas involves Larry pissing off his wife Cheryl's gentile family, and recruiting actors from a living manger scene to recreate their display on his lawn.
—Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
The legislation, which was enacted by Israel’s parliament in 1950, was designed to strengthen the creation of a Jewish state by welcoming people whose mothers or grandmothers were Jews, as well as gentiles who had converted to Judaism.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2024
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.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2024
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Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
This Curb Christmas involves Larry pissing off his wife Cheryl's gentile family, and recruiting actors from a living manger scene to recreate their display on his lawn.
—Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
The legislation, which was enacted by Israel’s parliament in 1950, was designed to strengthen the creation of a Jewish state by welcoming people whose mothers or grandmothers were Jews, as well as gentiles who had converted to Judaism.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2024
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.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gentile
pagan
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Church officials decided to recognize Dec. 25 as his birthday, probably to coincide with the date of pagan festivals in an attempt to get pagans to accept Christianity as the official religion.—
Atlanta Life,
ajc,
10 Nov. 2017
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While plague stalks the land, paranoid peasants swap cautionary folk tales about evil spirits, pagans, Jews and other outsiders.—
Stephen Dalton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Oct. 2017
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“Gentile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gentile. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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