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SUMERIAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Babylonian (an inhabitant of ancient Babylon)

Derivation:

Sumerian (of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)

Sumerian (a member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer)

Derivation:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)

Sumerian (a member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer)

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