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Meanings of semitic in English
Group of people, culture and languages in Middle East.
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Examples for "semites"
Examples for "semites"
1
The original home of the Semites is believed to have been Arabia.
2
If the Semites could conquer her, so could she conquer the Semites.
3
The ancestors of the Aryans and Semites enjoyed no such advantages.
4
There is another great race which influences the world, the Semites.
5
As a hammer god, he was imported by the Semites from the hills.
1
In time, Sumerian civilization came to be dominated by the Semitic peoples.
2
After all, the Palestinians and other Arabs are also Semitic peoples.
3
We instinctively associate Semitic peoples with the Near East.
4
Various sacred trees were known to the Semitic peoples, such as the fig-tree (cp.
5
A well-marked subordinate group is formed by the so-called Semitic peoples, such as the Arabs and their Hebrew relatives.
Usage of semitic in English
1
The welding of incongruous elements is very apparent in the Semitic Version.
2
The Semitic race is not to lead the civilization of the world.
3
In the Semitic race, the high priest of humanity, Christianity, was born.
4
In time, Sumerian civilization came to be dominated by the Semitic peoples.
5
Naturally the Semitic colonists brought their gods with them from the mother-land.
6
The Aramaean, or Third Semitic migration, in time swamped various decaying States.
7
Their migrations began long before that of the Aryan and Semitic people.
8
The Semitic languages also are all varieties of one form of speech.
9
Thither went many Semitic settlers who had absorbed the culture of Sumeria.
10
A knowledge of the various Semitic alphabets is necessary for copying inscriptions.
11
He does not say he is a child of the Aramaico-Semitic race.
12
But the Semitic mind has not been without influence on human progress.
13
They belonged to the Arabian race, and were consequently a Semitic people.
14
East of Babylonia were the mountains of Elam, inhabited by non-Semitic tribes.
15
Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures and Hellenistic Greek, University of Michigan
16
The Babylonian was thus a compound of Sumerian, Semitic, and Kassite elements.
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