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PALESTINIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Palestinian" is a kind of...):
Arab; Arabian (a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa)
Derivation:
Palestinian (of or relating to the area of Palestine and its inhabitants)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the area of Palestine and its inhabitants
Example:
Palestinian guerrillas
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)
Derivation:
Palestine (an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism)
Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)
Palestinian (a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine)
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