kosher

Allowed to be eaten or used under Jewish religious rules, especially food rules.

• This meat is kosher.
• The label says these biscuits are kosher.
• Do you sell kosher wine?

Opposites: nonkosher

Common phrases: kosher food, kosher meat, kosher wine

Following Jewish religious rules about what food to eat and how to prepare it.

• They run a kosher restaurant.
• Her household has always been strictly kosher.
• He is kosher, so we checked the menu carefully.

Common phrases: kosher restaurant, kosher household, strictly kosher

Acceptable, honest, or following the usual rules.

• This deal seems kosher.
• Are you sure that arrangement is kosher?
• Everything looked perfectly kosher until we checked the paperwork.

Similar words: acceptable, legitimate, proper

Opposites: improper, illegitimate

Common phrases: seem kosher, perfectly kosher, kosher deal

In a way that follows Jewish religious rules about food.

• We eat kosher at home.
• Can you cook kosher for our guests?
• They have kept kosher since childhood.

Common phrases: eat kosher, cook kosher, keep kosher

To prepare food or cooking equipment so it meets Jewish religious rules.

• They kosher the meat with salt.
• The family had the kitchen koshered before moving in.
• These pots must be koshered before use.

Similar words: kasher

Common phrases: kosher meat, kosher a kitchen, kosher utensils