CANAANITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Canaanite mean? 

• CANAANITE (noun)
  The noun CANAANITE has 2 senses:

1. a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites

2. the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest

  Familiarity information: CANAANITE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANAANITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Canaanite" is a kind of...):

Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Canaanite" is a kind of...):

Canaanitic; Canaanitic language (a group of Semitic languages)