Get to know Druze better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like druse or disciple.
Druze meaning
A member of a secretive Ismaili Shiite community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
Using Druze
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of a secretive Ismaili Shiite community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
- Useful related words include: druse, disciple, adherent.
- In the example corpus, druze often appears in combinations such as: the druze, druze and, and druze.
Context around Druze
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Druze
- In this selection, "druze" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, male, female, prominent, religious, population and flags stand out and add context to how "druze" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a druze cannot be and a female druze can only. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "druze" sits close to words such as acupuncture, aero and ahl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with druze
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A Druze cannot be reincarnated in the body of a non-Druze. (12 words)
Netanyahu meets with Druze Sheikh Moafaq Tarif in his office in Jerusalem on Wednesday. (14 words)
In short, this is a school where Jewish, Arabic, Druze and Christian children learn together. (15 words)
About two percent of the Druze population are also scattered within other countries in the Middle East. sfn Large communities of Druze also live outside the Middle East, in Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the United States, and West Africa. (40 words)
In 1038, two years after the death of al-Zahir, the Druze movement was able to resume because the new leadership that replaced him had friendly political ties with at least one prominent Druze leader. (35 words)
On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily walked out of a meeting with Druze leaders when a prominent Druze activist and former IDF brigadier general criticized the controversial nation-state law passed last month. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Furthermore, a male Druze can only be reincarnated as another male Druze and a female Druze can only be reincarnated as another female Druze.
Hundreds of five-colored Druze flags — rarely seen outside the community — fluttered alongside Israeli flags, and mustachioed Druze elders, wearing red and white fezzes, cheered ahead of speeches by Druze and Jewish leaders.
Even more painful for the Druze community was his publication of "falsified Druze religious texts" and false testimonials ascribed to leading Druze sheikhs designed to stir up sectarian hatred.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily walked out of a meeting with Druze leaders when a prominent Druze activist and former IDF brigadier general criticized the controversial nation-state law passed last month.
About two percent of the Druze population are also scattered within other countries in the Middle East. sfn Large communities of Druze also live outside the Middle East, in Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the United States, and West Africa.
A Druze cannot be reincarnated in the body of a non-Druze.
Another destabilizing factor was France's support for the Maronite Christians against the Druze which in turn led the British to back the Druze, exacerbating religious and economic tensions between the two communities.
Archaeological assessments of the Druze region have also proposed the possibility of Druze descending from Itureans, Religious and Theological Abstracts.
In 1038, two years after the death of al-Zahir, the Druze movement was able to resume because the new leadership that replaced him had friendly political ties with at least one prominent Druze leader.
In the early stages of the movement, the word "Druze" is rarely mentioned by historians, and in Druze religious texts only the word Muwaḥḥidūn ("Unitarian") appears.
Male Druze and Circassian Israeli citizens are liable, by agreement with their community leaders (Female Druze and Circassian are exempt from service).
Sometimes In a mixed Druze-Christian village like al-Rama, only the Christians were initially expelled towards Lebanon, but, thanks to the intervention of the local Druze were permitted to return.
This has led to an enormous decrease to the Druze population in Mount-Lebanon, who were a majority back then and helped the Christians overcome the Druze demographically.
This propaganda also was broadcast in the Arab world, mainly Egypt. Shishakli was assassinated in Brazil on 27 September 1964 by a Druze seeking revenge for Shishakli's bombardment of the Jebel al-Druze.
In short, this is a school where Jewish, Arabic, Druze and Christian children learn together.
In the Druze village of Hurfeish, an Arab minority community near Israel's border with Lebanon, mostly women remain after many men had left to join the front lines of war.
Netanyahu meets with Druze Sheikh Moafaq Tarif in his office in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Some Golan Druze are loyal to the Syrian regime and won’t get Israeli IDs.
And besides, many Lebanese Christians and Druze have never had any quarrel with Jews, anyway.
A suspected Hezbollah rocket strike recently killed 12 young people in the Druze area of the Golan Heights – which Israel occupies.
Common combinations with druze
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the druze 46×
- druze and 12×
- and druze 10×
- druze community 8×
- of druze 5×
- by druze 4×
- druze town 4×
- druze women 4×
- male druze 3×
- female druze 3×