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- US Pronunciation
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- [maht-suh; Sephardic Hebrew mah-tsah; Ashkenazic Hebrew mah-tsaw]
- /ˈmɑt sə; Sephardic Hebrew mɑˈtsɑ; Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈmɑ tsɔ/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [maht-suh; Sephardic Hebrew mah-tsah; Ashkenazic Hebrew mah-tsaw]
- /ˈmɑt sə; Sephardic Hebrew mɑˈtsɑ; Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈmɑ tsɔ/
Definitions of matzo word
- noun plural matzo unleavened bread in the form of large crackers, typically square and corrugated, eaten by Jews during Passover. 1
- noun plural matzo one of these crackers. 1
- noun matzo A thin, crisp unleavened bread, traditionally eaten by Jews during Passover. 1
- noun matzo Jewish unleavened bread 1
- noun matzo a brittle very thin biscuit of unleavened bread, traditionally eaten during Passover 0
- noun matzo a kind of thin, crisp unleavened bread eaten by Jews during the Passover 0
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Origin of matzo
First appearance:
before 1840 One of the 33% newest English words
1840-50; < Yiddish matse < Hebrew maṣṣāh
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Matzo
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
matzo popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
matzo usage trend in Literature
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