SUMERIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sumerian mean? 

• SUMERIAN (noun)
  The noun SUMERIAN has 1 sense:

1. a member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer

  Familiarity information: SUMERIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• SUMERIAN (adjective)
  The adjective SUMERIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants

  Familiarity information: SUMERIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMERIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Babylonian (an inhabitant of ancient Babylon)

Derivation:

Sumerian (of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants)

• SUMERIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)

Sumerian (a member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer)

Derivation:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)

Sumerian (a member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer)

 Context examples 

Dr Worthington is an Assyriologist who specialises in Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian grammar, literature and medicine.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)