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How to pronounce semite in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms semitic
Type Words
Type of white person, caucasian, white
Has types aramean, assyrian, babylonian, canaanite, arab, chaldaean, chaldean, chaldee, phoenician, arabian, aramaean
Derivation semitic

Examples of semite

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He was a raving anti-semite and shat all over Pisarro during the Dreyfus affair.
From the guardian.co.uk
If you criticize Israel, you can be tarred by various groups as an anti-semite.
From the scienceblogs.com
I know how easily words like racist and anti-semite rolls across his tongue.
From the guardian.co.uk
How are you fearing that that makes you sound like any sort of anti-semite?
From the newscientist.com
And I must say that being called an anti-semite by these people is surreal.
From the swampland.time.com
I'll still think it's wrong and disgusting, and you'll be free to call me an Islamophobic anti-semite.
From the guardian.co.uk
I fact, I checked a few of your other edits, just to make sure your weren't some vandal or anti-semite.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The L'Oreal founder was a renown fascist and anti semite.
From the guardian.co.uk
She was also criticised by some as an anti-semite, despite her being happily married to a Jewish man.
From the en.wikipedia.org
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  • Of or relating to or characteristic of Semites; "Semite peoples"
  • A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
  • (semitic) of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; "Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology"
  • (semitic) a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
  • The term Semitic or Semite most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a language family currently present in West Asia, North and East Africa, and Malta
  • (Semites) The people descended from Shem, the son of Noah.
  • (Semites) Related to Shem, son of Noah. These are the people whose primary strength has to do with being religious.
  • (Semitic) Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the Semitic family is Arabic. (p. 32)
  • (Semitic) relating to a group of people living in southwestern Asia represented now by Jews and Arabs and in ancient times by Babylonians, Assyrians, Arameans, Canaanites, and Phoenicians