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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Semitic  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Semitic 
  adj  1:  of  or  relating  to  the  group  of  Semitic  languages;  "Semitic 
  tongues  have  a  complicated  morphology"  [syn:  {Semitic}] 
  2:  of  or  relating  to  or  characteristic  of  Semites;  "Semite 
  peoples"  [syn:  {Semite},  {Semitic}] 
  n  :  a  major  branch  of  the  Afro-Asiatic  language  family  [syn:  {Semitic}] 




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