Usually means: Member of ancient Near Eastern peoples.
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  1. semite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Semite, Semite: Merriam-Webster
  3. Semite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Semite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Semite: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Semite: Vocabulary.com
  7. Semite, semite: Wordnik
  8. Semite: Wiktionary
  9. Semite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Semite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Semite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Semite: Dictionary.com
  13. Semite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. semite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Semite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Semite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. semite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Semite: Rhymezone
  19. Semite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. semite: FreeDictionary.org
  21. semite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Semite: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Semite: Encyclopedia

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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See semites as well.)

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noun:  A member of a modern people that speak a Semitic language.
noun:  A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia and East Africa such as the Akkadians, Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians, Canaanites, Hebrews, Arabs, or Aksumites.
noun:  A descendant of any of these peoples.
noun:  A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Shem.
noun:  (sometimes derogatory) A Jew.

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