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landsleit definition

lands·leit (länts′līt′)

plural noun sing. landsman lands′·man (-mən)

fellow Jews; sometimes, specif., those from the same town or village in Europe as oneself

Etymology: Yiddish

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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