Canaanite

Other forms: Canaanites

Definitions of Canaanite
  1. noun
    a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites
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    type of:
    Semite
    a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
  2. noun
    the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest
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    type of:
    Canaanitic, Canaanitic language
    a group of Semitic languages
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