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Semite   /sˈɛmaɪt/   Listen
Semite

noun
(Written also Shemite)
1.
A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa.



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"Semite" Quotes from Famous Books



... peddlers and puts up with them in a cellar similar to his in the Syrian Quarter. But only for a month could he suffer what the Jew has suffered for centuries. Why? There is this difference between the cellar of the Semite Syrian and that of the Semite Jew: in the first we eat mojadderah, in the second, kosher but stinking flesh; in the first we read poetry and play the lute, in the second we fight about the rent and the division of the profits of the day; in the ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani


Words linked to "Semite" :   Babylonian, Phoenician, anti-Semite, White person, Chaldean, Aramaean, Caucasian, white, Chaldaean, Semitic, Aramean, Arab, Chaldee, Canaanite, Assyrian, Arabian


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