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How to pronounce semitic in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms semite
Derivation semite
Type Words
Type of afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, hamito-semitic, afrasian language, afro-asiatic, afrasian
Has types canaanitic, canaanitic language, ethiopian language, maltese, maltese language, malti, akkadian, amharic, arabic, arabic language, aramaic
Type Words

Examples of semitic

semitic
The role models were training me to be anti-semitic and racially discriminatory.
From the scienceblogs.com
And Margolyes confides that she herself has encountered anti-semitic sentiment.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Perhaps he also thinks the anti-semitic abuse directed at Spurs is acceptable.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Is it anti-semitic to point out that the Jewish people broke the covenant with God?
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Gender classification of nouns is a feature of Indo-European and semitic languages.
From the guardian.co.uk
At this time, anti-semitic laws were in the process of being formulated in Hungary.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And I am sure that you could find Catalan nationalists who are anti-semitic.
From the economist.com
I can't wait for the weaver of anti-semitic goodness to weave something out of this.
From the economist.com
I was really tempted to recommend censoring this grossly ignorant anti-semitic post.
From the economist.com
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  • A major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
  • Of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; "Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology"
  • Semite: of or relating to or characteristic of Semites; "Semite peoples"
  • (semite) a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
  • 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
  • Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc; Of or pertaining to the Semites: Semitic people; Of or pertaining to the descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah; In a ...
  • (Semiticism) An expression or grammatical structure in Greek, but written under the influence of Hebrew or Aramaic, both Semitic languages.
  • (Semite) (sem ite) A Jew, Arab, or other, of eastern Mediterranean origin.
  • (Semites) The people descended from Shem, the son of Noah.