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Definition of Minyan
1. Noun. The quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age).
Definition of Minyan
1. n. A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.
Definition of Minyan
1. Noun. The minimum number of ten adult Jews required for a communal religious service. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Minyan
1. the minimum number required to be present for the conduct of a Jewish service [n -YANS or -YANIM]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minyan
Literary usage of Minyan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"A land where the minyan race left the clearest traces of themselves in ...
The memory of Athamas, the great minyan king, lingered here and around lake ..."
2. History of the Jews in America: From the Period of the Discovery of the New by Peter Wiernik (1912)
"The first "minyan" in Buenos Ayres, Argentine, in 1861—Estimate of the Jewish
population in Argentine—Occupations and economic condition of the various ..."
3. Korakou: A Prehistoric Settlement Near Corinth by Carl William Blegen (1921)
"It is not so clearly an imitation of Gray minyan as the former. ... Like most of
the minyan vases it has a sharp angle at the shoulder and a splaying rim. ..."
4. The Neolithic and Bronze Ages by Sara Anderson Immerwahr (1971)
"269, which is heavier than most Middle Helladic Red Burnished and in this respect
ARGIVE minyan (P1. 18) minyan, and the same shape is found almost ..."
5. Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History by James Picciotto (1875)
"... UNLAWFUL minyan—GIFTS TO THE SEPHARDI SYNAGOGUE. ALBEIT the Portuguese Jewish
Community of London had ceased in the second decade of the present century ..."
6. The Hittites and Their Language by Claude Reignier Conder (1898)
"Akkadian da, ta; Turkish da, minyan ta. Da, suffix of abstract nouns. ...
Akkadian and minyan en, enna, so. Ene, they. Akkadian. Er, eri, man, servant. ..."
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