Definitions for Hittite

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Hittite Hit·tite

Spelling: [hit-ahyt]

IPA: /ˈhɪt aɪt/

Hittite is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Hittite (ehiittt).

Definitions for Hittite

noun

1. a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c.
2. an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, preserved in cuneiform inscriptions of the second millennium b.c. Compare Hieroglyphic Hittite.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Hittites or their language.

Origin of Hittite

1600-10; Hebrew ḥitt(īm) Hittite (compare Hittite Khatti) + -ite¹

Examples for Hittite

They showed that the Hittite had won and kept the pass by force of arms.

When, however, we speak of a Hittite empire we must understand clearly what that means.

He found a ready market for them among the Hittite and Araman kings.

When first we hear of it in the Egyptian records it was already in Hittite hands.

The cities they are said to have founded must have been the seats of Hittite rule.

Not far from Karabel another monument of Hittite art has been discovered.

Like the Egyptian Pharaoh, the Hittite monarch was accompanied to battle by his scribes.

The same is the case with the Hittite tribes of Malatiyeh and Komagênê.

It is not the only heirloom of Hittite art which has descended to us of to-day.

Maybe you can tell the Ecuadorians that Israel deserves Hebron because Abraham bought land there from Ephron the Hittite.