Semite
['semait]
Definition
(noun.) a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Semites; 'Semite peoples' .
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Definition
(n.) One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.
Checker: Sinclair
Examples
- The Semite rose against the Aryan, and replaced Hellenic civilization throughout Western Asia and Egypt by an Arabic culture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Semite also was more polygamous than the Aryan, his women less self-assertive,[135] and the tendency of his government more patriarchal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the religion of the nomadic Semite was as little organized as the religion of the Aryan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We may note one or two points of difference from the equivalent life of the nomadic Semites. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Semites had no long winter evenings and no bardic singing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The early Semites, it is said, as soon as they thought of a god, invented a wife for him; most of the Egyptian and Babylonian gods were married. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They revived and changed this Dravidian civilization much as the Greeks did the ?gean or the Semites the Sumerian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the gods of the nomadic Semites had not this marrying disposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Egypt was conquered by nomadic Semites, who founded a shepherd dynasty, the Hyksos (XVIth), which was finally expelled by native Egyptians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the case of Babylonia these were nomadic Semites, the Bedouin, like the Bedouin of to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were neither Semites nor Aryans, and whence they came we do not know. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Though both groups of races had cattle and sheep, the Aryans were rather herdsmen, the Semites, shepherds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Rosalie