noun. A person who is not Jewish.

noun. A pagan or heathen.

noun. A non-Mormon.

adjective. Of or relating to a gentile.

adjective. Of or relating to a gens, tribe, or people.

Of or belonging to a gens or clan; of the same clan or family.

(in this sense only jen′ tīl). In Scripture, belonging to a non-Jewish nation; pertaining to a heathen people: in the United States, applied by the Mormons to persons not of their church.

In grammar, expressing nationality, local extraction, or place of abode; describing or designating a person as belonging to a certain race, country, district, town, or locality by birth or otherwise: as, a gentile noun (as Greek, Arab, Englishman, etc.); a gentile adjective (as Florentine, Spanish, etc.).

Worthy of a gentleman; genteel; honorable. See genteel, gentle.

Synonyms See gentile, n.

noun. A member of a gens or clan.

noun. (jen′ tīl). In Scripture, one belonging to a non-Jewish nation; any person not a Jew; a heathen; sometimes, in later writings, one who is neither a Jew nor a Christian.

noun. (jen′ tīl). Among the Mormons, one who is not of their church.

noun. In grammar, a noun or an adjective derived from the name of a country or locality, and designating its natives or people: as, the words Italian, American, Athenian, are gentiles.

noun. One neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.

noun. A person who is not Jewish; -- used in this sense by Jews.

adjective. Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.

adjective. Denoting a race or country.

adjective. non-Jewish

adjective. non-Mormon (including Jews)

adjective. heathen, pagan

adjective. tribal, national

adjective. of or pertaining to gens or gentes

noun. A non-Jewish person.

noun. A non-Mormon person (including Jews).

adjective. belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples

noun. a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus

noun. a Christian

noun. a person who does not acknowledge your god

noun. a Christian as contrasted with a Jew

"CAROLYN JESSOP: I was taught as a child that anyone who was not a member of the work of God was what we called a gentile, or if they had left the work of God, they ` re an apostate, and we looked at them as agents of the devil who wanted to destroy us because we were God ` s children."