Gentile

How many syllables in Gentile?

gentile has 2 syllables

Split Gentile into syllables?

gen-tile

Definition of Gentile

a person who is not Jewish

How should Gentile divide into syllables

The first syllable 'gen' has a vowel 'e' and two consonants 'g' and 'n'. The second syllable 'tile' has two vowels 'i' and 'e' and one consonant 't'.

Part of Speech - Gentile

Noun

Sentences with Gentile

  • My neighbor is a gentile and we get along just fine.
  • The majority of people in this country are gentiles.
  • I asked my teacher if she was a gentile, and she said yes.
  • In some cultures, it's common to marry someone who is not a gentile.
  • My dad is a gentile, but he respects my Jewish faith.
  • The gentile population in this city is growing rapidly.
  • I learned about gentiles in my history class.
  • Some gentiles choose to convert to Judaism.
  • It's important to be respectful of other people's beliefs, even if they are gentiles.
  • I met a nice gentile family on vacation last year.

Quotes with Gentile

  • The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
  • I'm very fond of the folk songs of the southern Appalachians, and I find that gentile music has the same structural principles as Appalachian music.
  • It's the old, old story of the choice between the gentile and the Jew, and it's still being played out. It was at the core of the presidential election of 2000, and it promises to be at the core of the upcoming presidential contest in 2004.
  • The Gentiles have always been fascinated by Jewish culture, but they don't always understand it.
  • For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
  • I was a sickly child, and my mother was convinced I would never be able to play sports. She would make me stay in when the other kids went out. But I would practice sneaking out the back door and go off to play ball with my friends.
  • The gentile world will never understand the Jewish world.
  • I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about Judaism. I can't just sit back.
  • There's no such thing as a Gentile Christian. Period.
  • There is no difference between a Jew and a gentile in their purpose before God.

Number of characters in Gentile

7 ( g, e, n, t, i, l, e )

Unique letters in Gentile

6 ( g, e, n, t, i, l )

Gentile Backwards

elitneg

Phonetic Transcription of Gentile

IPA (International): ˈdʒeˌntaɪl

ARA (American): ˈdʒɛˌntaɪl

EPA (English): ˈdʒeˌntaɪl

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