semitic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
  2. adjective of or relating to the group of Semitic languages
    • Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology
  3. adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Semites
    Semite.
    • Semite peoples

WordNet

Sem*it"ic adjective
Definitions
  1. 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. Encyc. Brit.

Webster 1913