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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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