How do you use Alawite in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Alawite meaning
- A member of a mystical Shiite Islamic group that reveres Ali.
- A person raised in the Alawite culture.
Using Alawite
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of a mystical Shiite Islamic group that reveres Ali. | A person raised in the Alawite culture.
- In the example corpus, alawite often appears in combinations such as: alawite minority, alawite community, country alawite.
Context around Alawite
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alawite
- In this selection, "alawite" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, own, druze, small, minority, community and notables stand out and add context to how "alawite" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against the alawite community and assad s alawite minority. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alawite" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alawite
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Even Assad’s own Alawite community did not fight for him. (11 words)
In the city of Latakia, protester Ghidak Mayya, 30, decried "violations" against the Alawite community. (15 words)
Syria is home to an array of ethnic and religious groups, including Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Christians, Druze, Alawite Shia and Arab Sunnis. (22 words)
This measure tipped the balance in favor of Alawite officers who staged a coup in 1966 and for the first time placed Damascus in the hands of the Alawites.' citation The Armed Forces were involved in the 1967 Six Day War (against Israel). (43 words)
These efforts were no more successful than those of previous years, however, with Alawite notables and clerics taking up their anti-Iranian grievances to Russian military officers stationed at the Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia. (35 words)
Allouki last saw action when Syria’s civil war briefly spilled over into Tripoli between 2011-2014, and his Sunni fighters took on members of the city’s small Alawite community, coreligionists with President Assad. (35 words)
Example sentences (10)
These efforts were no more successful than those of previous years, however, with Alawite notables and clerics taking up their anti-Iranian grievances to Russian military officers stationed at the Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia.
An attempt to arrest Mr. al-Hassan on Wednesday set off deadly clashes in the western region around the port of Tartus — part of the heartland of Mr. al-Assad’s Alawite minority.
Even Assad’s own Alawite community did not fight for him.
He said his goal was to see Syria ruled under Islamic law and made clear that there was no room for the country’s Alawite, Shiite, Druze, and Christian minorities.
In Homs, scene of some of the war's deadliest violence, tens of thousands of members of Assad's Alawite minority were fleeing, fearing the rebels' advance, residents and the Britain-based Observatory said.
In the city of Latakia, protester Ghidak Mayya, 30, decried "violations" against the Alawite community.
Small demonstrations also took place in other areas on or near Syria’s coast, where most of the country’s Alawite minority live, including in Tartous.
Syria is home to an array of ethnic and religious groups, including Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Christians, Druze, Alawite Shia and Arab Sunnis.
Allouki last saw action when Syria’s civil war briefly spilled over into Tripoli between 2011-2014, and his Sunni fighters took on members of the city’s small Alawite community, coreligionists with President Assad.
This measure tipped the balance in favor of Alawite officers who staged a coup in 1966 and for the first time placed Damascus in the hands of the Alawites.' citation The Armed Forces were involved in the 1967 Six Day War (against Israel).
Common combinations with alawite
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: