Found 2 items, similar to Semitic.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Semitic 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] Semitic n : a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
English → English (gcide) Definition: Semitic 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]