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CHOSEN PEOPLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any people believing themselves to be chosen by God
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("chosen people" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chosen people"):
Hebrews; Israelites (the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19))
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