- a kind of thin, crisp unleavened bread eaten by Jews during the Passover
- pl. mat′zos, mat′zot , mat′zoth a piece of this
Origin of matzo
Classical Hebrew (language) matsts?h, unleavenedmatzo
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matzo
also mat·zoh
noun
pl. mat·zos, also mat·zohs or mat·zot or mat·zothA flat, usually brittle piece of unleavened bread, eaten especially during Passover.
Origin of matzo
Yiddish matse from Hebrew ma&slowdot;&slowdot;â m&saclod;&saclod;THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural matzos or matzot)
- (uncountable) Thin, unleavened bread.
- (countable) A piece of the above bread.
Origin
Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá).
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