Definitions for Samaritan

Samaritan Sa·mar·i·tan

Spelling: [suh-mar-i-tn]
IPA: /səˈmær ɪ tn/

Samaritan is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 440 anagrams from letters in Samaritan (aaaimnrst).

Definitions for Samaritan

noun

  1. an inhabitant of Samaria.
  2. good Samaritan.
  3. (often lowercase) one who is compassionate and helpful to a person in distress.
  4. any of the dialects of Aramaic spoken by the Samaritans in ancient Israel and until recently still spoken in Nablus.

adjective

  1. pertaining to Samaria or to Samaritans.

Origin of Samaritan

before 1000; Middle English, Old English Late Latin samarītānus Greek samarī́t(ēs) dweller in Samaria + -ānus -an

Examples for Samaritan

The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Some good Samaritan had, and administered it, and Gubbins was consoled.

He next proceeded to learn the Chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan dialects.

There were none that returned to give thanks save this Samaritan.

There was not a deal of hypocrisy in his nature, and now he did not attempt the part of Samaritan.

The testimony of a Samaritan could not be heard before a Jewish tribunal.

This girl had been kindly; she could do no less than be a Samaritan herself.

The Samaritan was riding; for he set the wounded man “on his own beast.”

Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

Word Value for Samaritan
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Words with friends

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