School and Yeshiva

School

School noun - A place or establishment for teaching and learning.
Usage example: one of the first schools in the country to admit girls as students

Yeshiva and school are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yeshiva" instead a noun "School".

Yeshiva

Yeshiva noun - An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud).
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Synonyms for Yeshiva

School and yeshiva are semantically related. You can use "School" instead a noun "Yeshiva".

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Both words in one sentence

  • Noel, who supposedly speaks Hebrew, tells Frasier that "yeshiva" is the word for school.
  • Against My Religion Another joke: A rabbi is walking around the yeshiva (or Jewish religious school) one Sabbath, when he sees three students sitting in a room with the windows open, playing poker for money!
  • Film / Yentl When her father dies, Yentl makes the decision to cut her hair, take the name of her dead brother Anshel and disguise herself as a boy so she can enter a yeshiva (Jewish religious school).
    Source: Film / Yentl
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