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Semitic has 4 common definitions:


  1. relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family.
  2. relating to the peoples who speak the Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic.
  3. relating to the ancient peoples who spoke Semitic languages, such as Akkadians and Canaanites.
  4. (Modern use only) Jewish
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