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PALESTINIAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine

Synonyms:

Palestinian; Palestinian Arab

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Palestinian" is a kind of...):

Arab; Arabian (a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Derivation:

Palestinian (of or relating to the area of Palestine and its inhabitants)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the area of Palestine and its inhabitants

Example:

Palestinian guerrillas

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)

Derivation:

Palestine (an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism)

Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)

Palestinian (a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine)

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