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SEMITE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Caucasian; White; White person (a Caucasian)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Semite"):

Babylonian (an inhabitant of ancient Babylon)

Chaldaean; Chaldean; Chaldee (an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea)

Assyrian (an inhabitant of ancient Assyria)

Phoenician (a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.)

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)

Aramaean; Aramean (a member of one of a group of Semitic peoples inhabiting Aram and parts of Mesopotamia from the 11th to the 8th century BC)

Canaanite (a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites)

Derivation:

Semite; Semitic (of or relating to or characteristic of Semites)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Semites

Example:

Semite peoples

Synonyms:

Semite; Semitic

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Derivation:

Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)

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