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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Late Latin
Origin: gentilis, from Latin gens 'family, nation'

gentile

 noun
     
Related topics: Religion
gen‧tile also Gentile [countable]
RR someone who is not Jewish
—gentile adjective [only before noun]
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