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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural Fellow Jews who come from the same district or town, especially in Eastern Europe.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Yiddish landslayt, from Middle High German lantsliute, natives, compatriots : lant, land; see landsman + liute, pl. of liut, person, people (from Old High German; see leudh- in Indo-European roots).]

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