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Aramaic

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Noun

1. aramaic

a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia

2. aramaic, aramaic script

an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it

Adjective

3. aramaic

of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Aramaic

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noun
1. 
an ancient language of the Middle East, still spoken in parts of Syria and the Lebanon, belonging to the NW Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family. Originally the speech of Aram, in the 5th century bc it spread to become the lingua franca of the Persian empire
See also Biblical Aramaic
adjective
2. 
of, relating to, or using this language

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Aramaic

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noun
a Northwest Semitic language that was the lingua franca throughout the Near East from c. 300 b.c. to c. a.d. 650: it replaced Hebrew as the language of the Jews, and one of its dialects was spoken by Jesus and his disciples

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Aramaic

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n.
A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but widely used by non-Aramean peoples throughout southwest Asia. Also called Aramean, Chaldean.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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