How do you use Semitic in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like afroasiatic or afrasian, plus the exact meaning.
Semitic in a sentence
Semitic meaning
- Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afroasiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.
- Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
Synonyms of Semitic
Using Semitic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afroasiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc. | Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples. | Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
- Useful related words include: afroasiatic, hamito-semitic, afrasian language, afrasian.
- In the example corpus, semitic often appears in combinations such as: semitic languages, east semitic, semitic and.
Context around Semitic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Semitic
- In this selection, "semitic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anti, east, ethiopian, languages, propaganda and attack stand out and add context to how "semitic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include actively anti semitic company and against anti semitic behavior by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "semitic" sits close to words such as aston, ct and geopolitical, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with semitic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Anti-Semitic slogans were spotted among the placards, British media reported. (11 words)
BLM is a merger of the anti-Semitic Black Panthers and the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam. (17 words)
Although classified as ' East Semitic ', many elements of its basic vocabulary find no evident parallels in related Semitic languages. (19 words)
History The Semitic sound value of Qôp (perhaps originally qaw, "cord of wool", and possibly based on an Egyptian hieroglyph ) was /q/ ( voiceless uvular stop ), a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones. (41 words)
Labour under Corbyn, a hard-left politician who has called Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends” and is fighting accusations of harboring anti-Semitic sentiments, has come under intense scrutiny in the media over anti-Semitic rhetoric by party members. (39 words)
A good analogy would be Julius Streicher (a well known anti-Semite, hanged by the Allies after the war in part for his anti-Semitic propaganda) complaining that Hitler told him to publish anti-Semitic propaganda. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
For example: citation The stem ʾl is found prominently in the earliest strata of east Semitic, northwest Semitic, and south Semitic groups.
A good analogy would be Julius Streicher (a well known anti-Semite, hanged by the Allies after the war in part for his anti-Semitic propaganda) complaining that Hitler told him to publish anti-Semitic propaganda.
BLM is a merger of the anti-Semitic Black Panthers and the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam.
Basically, the poem was written in response to the Russian anti-Semitic pogroms of 1881 and finally became famous following German anti-Semitic pogrom of late 1938.
First of all, not everyone (or even most people) associated with an anti-Semitic movement is an anti-Semitic person.
It is NOT anti-semitic to criticise the settler-colonial, human-rights abusing movement of modern Zionism, though many such critics have been tarred with with the anti-semitic brush.
It may not matter much to the victims of an anti-Semitic attack whether the perpetrator is an all-around fundamentalist or someone who just bought in to anti-Semitic propaganda.
We don’t want to be anti-Semitic and we’re not being anti-Semitic when we speak out for justice as a principal, but that’s the attack that they try to use.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has come under increasing scrutiny over allegations that he has both engaged in anti-Semitic behavior himself and failed to take action against anti-Semitic behavior by members of his party.
Labour under Corbyn, a hard-left politician who has called Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends” and is fighting accusations of harboring anti-Semitic sentiments, has come under intense scrutiny in the media over anti-Semitic rhetoric by party members.
That Facebook was willing to hire a public relations firm to peddle anti-Semitic conspiracy theories doesn’t mean that Facebook is an actively anti-Semitic company.
Abjads and the structure of Semitic languages The abjad form of writing is well-adapted to the morphological structure of the Semitic languages it was developed to write.
Although classified as ' East Semitic ', many elements of its basic vocabulary find no evident parallels in related Semitic languages.
Anti-Semitic propaganda for children In Nazi Germany, the education system was thoroughly co-opted to indoctrinate the German youth with anti-Semitic ideology.
History The Semitic sound value of Qôp (perhaps originally qaw, "cord of wool", and possibly based on an Egyptian hieroglyph ) was /q/ ( voiceless uvular stop ), a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones.
In Proto-Semitic, as still largely reflected in East Semitic, prefix conjugations are used both for the past and the non-past, with different vocalizations.
Modern Ethiopian Semitic languages follow a different word order: SOV, possessor–possessed, and adjective–noun; however, the oldest attested Ethiopian Semitic language, Ge'ez, was VSO, possessed–possessor, and noun–adjective.
Their perception, intuition, and interaction with the natural environment, structured and conditioned the unique socio-economic system, religion, and spiritual legacy that the diverse Semitic and non-Semitic ethnic later settlers adapted themselves to.
An American truck driver was sentenced to death on Wednesday for massacring 11 Jewish worshippers five years ago in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
Anti-Semitic slogans were spotted among the placards, British media reported.
Common combinations with semitic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: