Meaning of SEMITIC
| Pronunciation: | | si'mitik
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- [n] a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
- [adj] of or relating to or characteristic of Semites; "Semite peoples"
- [adj] of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; "Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology"
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| | Synonyms: | | Semite |
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| | See Also: | | Afrasian, Afrasian language, Afroasiatic, Afroasiatic language, Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic language, Aramaic, Canaanitic, Canaanitic language, Ethiopian language, Hamito-Semitic | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Sem*it"ic\, a.
Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to
that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs,
Jews, and related races. [Written also {Shemitic}.]
{Semitic language}, a name used to designate a group of
Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead,
namely: Hebrew and Ph[oe]nician, Aramaic, Assyrian,
Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). --Encyc. Brit.
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