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English Dictionary: Semitic by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
    Synonym(s): Semite, Semitic
n
  1. a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.]
  
      {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.
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