cheder

• cheider, cheyder, kheder, kheyder, heder

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛdəɹ/, /ˈxɛdɛəɹ/
• (Ashkenazi) IPA^(key): /ˈxejdəɹ/

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

2. (education, Judaism) 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

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كدر (keder).

cheder n (plural chederuri)

1. (obsolete) damage

• cheder in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN