semite

IPA: sˈɛmaɪt

Root Word: Semite

A member of a modern people that speak a Semitic language.
A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia and East Africa such as the Akkadians, Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians, Canaanites, Hebrews, Arabs, Aksumites, and Ethiopians.
A descendant of any of these peoples.
A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Shem.
(sometimes derogatory) A Jew.

Examples of "semite" in Sentences

It portrays Lithuanians as fevered anti semites.
That said, calling him an anti-semite is ridiculous.
The very word "semite" implies ethnicity, or race...
The Arab, like all the Semites, is sharp minded and shrewd.
Has the same voice provided you with a new definition for the term "semite"?
I agree with you that these terms provide succor to anti semites and racists.
By the way, the accusation that Chesterton was an anti-semite is a foul calumny.
Following is the meaning of the word semite tied to semitism or anti semitism: A semite is:
Moron. go make fun of the jews and they get all whiney call you anti semite which is a Stuoid ass term look up Semite.
I think the only thing worse than an anti-semite is a janus-faced anti-semite, which is what his article emphatically amounts to.
My only question is whether you would be equally generous to the author of that statement and defend them so passionately as well if they were attacked as an anti-semite or a neo-Nazi.
If he could come back to life, he would be astonished to find his term being transmuted into "semite" as a reference to just one segment of people who occupied the Near East: those now called "Jews," though there was no such identification of them by the name Jews until relatively recent times.