semite
IPA: sˈɛmaɪt
Root Word: Semite
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "semite" in Sentences
- That said, calling him an anti-semite is ridiculous.
- The very word "semite" implies ethnicity, or race...
- Has the same voice provided you with a new definition for the term "semite"?
- 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.
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