cheder

• cheider
• cheyder
• kheder
• kheyder

From Yiddish חדר‎ (kheyder), from Hebrew חדר‎ (khéder, “room”).

cheder (plural cheders or chederim or chedarim or chadarim or chadorim)

1. An elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.
   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 51:

     A businessman in New York who happened to be in the Midlands at the time was so impressed by Asher's methods that he was funding him to set up a string of chederim – Sunday schools for Jews – all over the United States.

• cheer'd, reched

cheder m (plural cheders)

1. ambit, scope