Definitions for semitic
səˈmɪt ɪksemitic

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. Semiticadjective

   a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family

2. Semiticadjective

   of or relating to the group of Semitic languages

   "Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology"

3. Semite, Semiticadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of Semites

   "Semite peoples"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Semiticadjective

   Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.

2. Semiticadjective

   Of or pertaining to the Semites: Semitic people.

3. Semiticadjective

   Of or pertaining to the descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah.

4. Semiticadjective

   In a narrower sense, of or pertaining to the Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew people.

5. Semiticnoun

   The Semitic languages in general.

6. Etymology: From the English Semite, an 18th century ethnological label from the semitisch, Σημ, from the שֵׂם, the name of the eldest son of Noah in biblical tradition (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), considered the forefather of the Semitic peoples. Perhaps derived from the Akkadian šumu, name or son.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Semiticadjective

   of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Semitic

   sem-it′ik, adj. pertaining to the Semites, or supposed descendants of Shem, or their language, customs, &c.—also Shemit′ic.—ns. Sem′ite; Semitisā′tion.—v.t. Sem′itise, to render Semitic in language or religion.—ns. Sem′itism, a Semitic idiom; Sem′itist, a Hebrew scholar.—Semitic languages, Assyrian, Aramean, Hebrew, Phœnician, together with Arabic and Ethiopic. [Applied by J. G. Eichhorn in 1817 to the closely allied peoples represented in Gen. x. as descended from Shem.]

How to pronounce semitic?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of semitic in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of semitic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of semitic in a Sentence

1. Joe Biden:

   We saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, and bearing the fangs of racism, chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s.

2. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   We're already living in a moment where we've seen a large rise in anti-Semitic incidents, double the vandals and violence than we did just a few years ago and this weekend, we had these anti-Semitic flyers drop in six different states.

3. Yossi Gestetner:

   The fact of the matter is there are anti-vaxxersin every community in every way of life, i am very concerned about the potential of profiling and anti-Semitic incidents.

4. Eric Valiente:

   He started becoming violent, he was very much anti-Semitic. He would say like all types of Jewish jokes. I thought he was joking at first and then I started to see seriousness in his comments.

5. Dani Secemski:

   I thought this was an anti-Semitic statement about the evil situation in the Middle East.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=semitic
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Semitic
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/semitic
4. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=semitic