Semitic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Semitic \Sem*it"ic\, a.
     Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to
     that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs,
     Jews, and related races. [Written also {Shemitic}.]
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Semitic language}, a name used to designate a group of
        Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead,
        namely: Hebrew and Ph[oe]nician, Aramaic, Assyrian,
        Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). --Encyc. Brit.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Semitic
       adj 1: of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; "Semitic
              tongues have a complicated morphology"
       2: of or relating to or characteristic of Semites; "Semite
          peoples" [syn: {Semite}]
       n : a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family