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gentile /ˈdʒɛntʌɪl/
▶adjective
- 1 (Gentile) not Jewish.
- 2 not belonging to one's own religious community, in particular (historical) non-Mormon.
- 3 chiefly Anthropology relating to or indicating a nation or clan, especially a gens.
– origin ME: from L. gentilis ‘of a family or nation, of the same clan’, from gens, gent- ‘family, race’.
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