cheder

• cheider, cheyder, kheder, kheyder, heder

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛdəɹ/, /ˈxɛdɛəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (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.

   • 2025 May 14, Marc Tracy, “Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     “Ms. Rachel seems to be someone who is really, really good-hearted, but in the context of everything that’s going on — she says, ‘I care about all children,’ but really she’s talking about the children of Gaza,” Stacy Hackner, a teacher at a London cheder, a school of Jewish instruction, said in an interview.

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• cheer'd, reched

cheder m (plural cheders)

1. ambit, scope

Borrowed from Hebrew חֶדֶר (khéder).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛ.dɛr/

• Audio:

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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