Definitions for semites

semites Sem·ite

Spelling: [sem-ahyt or, esp. British, see-mahyt]
IPA: /ˈsɛm aɪt or, esp. British, ˈsi maɪt/

Semites is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in semites (eeimsst).

Definitions for semites

noun

  1. a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
  2. a Jew.
  3. a member of any of the peoples descended from Shem, the eldest son of Noah.

Origin of semites

1870-75; New Latin sēmīta Late Latin Sēm (Greek Sḗm Hebrew Shēm Shem) + -īta -ite1

Examples for semites

The Semite has a smaller range of ideas, but he applies them more practically and more thoroughly.

The religion of the Semite was essentially different from that of the Sumerian.

These two names (Aryan and Semite), then, signify today rather two groups of peoples than two distinct races.

They were Semites with the inborn religious spirit which is characteristic of the Semite, and they were also a mixed race.

But the worship of which blood is the tie is not to the Aryan, as to the Semite, the whole of religion.

The power that uplifted Aryan and Semite did not come from without, but from within.

The Semite has been and still is the priest to all Arya, by the deepest necessity of the spirit.

These took to it kindly, for they had the Semite's born instinct for trading.

His force diminished, his numbers lessened, and the subjugated Semite increased in strength.

The Being in whom that fulness of light was revealed,—was he not a Semite of the Semites?

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