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MISHPOCHA
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends)
Example:
she invited the whole mishpocha
Synonyms:
mishpachah; mishpocha
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("mishpocha" is a kind of...):
clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe (group of people related by blood or marriage)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)