cheder

• cheider, cheyder, kheder, kheyder

From Yiddish חדר (kheyder), from Hebrew חדר (khéder, “room”).

cheder (plural cheders or chederim or chedarim or chadarim or chadorim)

1. An elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.
   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 51:

     A businessman in New York who happened to be in the Midlands at the time was so impressed by Asher's methods that he was funding him to set up a string of chederim – Sunday schools for Jews – all over the United States.

• cheer'd, reched

cheder m (plural cheders)

1. ambit, scope

Borrowed from Hebrew חֶדֶר (khéder).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛ.dɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɛr
• Syllabification: che‧der
• Homophone: heder

cheder m inan (related adjective chederowy)

1. (education, Judaism) cheder (elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew)

• cheder in Polish dictionaries at PWN