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Amish
 
SYLLABICATION:A·mish
PRONUNCIATION:  ämsh, msh
NOUN:(used with a pl. verb) An orthodox Anabaptist sect that separated from the Mennonites in the late 17th century and exists today primarily in Ohio and southeast Pennsylvania.
ADJECTIVE: Of or relating to this sect or its members.
ETYMOLOGY:German amisch, after Jacob Amman, 17th-century Swiss Mennonite bishop.
 
 
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