What is the meaning of Amish?

  • (n.pl.) The Amish Mennonites.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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