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semitic |
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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