gentile

adj

1. (not-comparable)Non-Jewish.

   “This ſhall bring down the Judgment upon Rome, preſently after the Appearance of Antichriſt: and as upon Rome, ſo alſo upon all the Gentile Chriſtians, who have a Name to live but are dead, being fallen away from their Firſt Love and Faith, and ſo having made themſelves Veſſels fit for Deſtruction, when this ſore Judgment ſhall go forth.”

   “Down in the workshop all the elves were makin' toys For the good gentile girls and the good gentile boys”

2. (not-comparable)Heathen, pagan.

   “[John] Bale, following Annius [Annio da Viterbo], argued that druids, bards and other ‘gentile’ (pagan) priests had preserved from Noah’s time the memory of a true religion that believed ‘that there is one God, immortal and incomprehensible’ (‘unum esse Deum immortalem, et incomprehensibilem ...’).”

3. (Mormonism, not-comparable)Non-Mormon.

   “The Justice or injustice of such a principle in law, I leave for them who made it, the United States; Suffice it say the law was just as good for a the Saints as for the Gentiles, [...]”

   “Before I go further, I should make it clear that I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Mormon. [...] I’m what Latter-day Saints call a Gentile: a non-Mormon.”

4. (not-comparable)Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national.

   “It is possible to manage without a gentile system. Many ethnoi are divided into tribes and clans.”

5. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.
6. (not-comparable)Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country.

   “Gentile Nouns. […] To this form belong our gentile nouns Englishman, Welshman, Scotchman, Irishman. These nouns are represented in Irish by adjectives or nouns of the form (1+ac): Alban-ac, Scotchman.”

noun

1. (Judaism)A non-Jewish person.

   “And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my seruant to raise vp the tribes of Iacob, and to restore the preserued of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my saluation, vnto the end of the earth.”

   “Yea farther, ſo glorious, and raviſhing were the firſt dawnings of Goſpel light, which brought ſuch glad tidings of Salvation to Mankind, as that not only the Jews, but alſo ſome ſober minded, inquiſitive Gentiles rejoyced in this Light for a ſeaſon […] who yet never had a through work of Converſion on their hearts: […]”

   “If a Jew cheated a Gentile one sixth in the purchase or in the sale of any commodity, the Gentile was without remedy; not so if a Gentile imposed on a Jew to the same amount. Theft likewise by a Gentile from a Jew was death, not so if the parties were changed: and the same odious injustice they manifested in their law on homicide. […] it is rather extraordinary, that Plato should say, the penalty for the death of a native and of a foreigner should be different.”

2. (Mormonism)A non-Mormon person.
3. A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.

   “Gentiles are denominative nouns denoting belonging to or coming from a particular country, nation, or city. Gentiles are formed from proper nouns by secondary suffixes.”

4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of gentile (a non-Jewish person).
5. (Mormonism)A non-Mormon person (including Jews).