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Samaritan

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Noun

1. samaritan

a member of the people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Samaritan

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noun
1. 
a native or inhabitant of Samaria
2.  short for Good Samaritan
3. 
a member of a voluntary organization (the Samaritans) which offers counselling to people in despair, esp by telephone
4. 
the dialect of Aramaic spoken in Samaria
adjective
5. 
of or relating to Samaria

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Samaritan

see synonyms of samaritan
noun
1. 
a person born or living in Samaria
2. 
a person who comes to the aid of another
see also good Samaritan
adjective
3. 
of Samaria or its people or culture

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

Samaritan

see synonyms of samaritan
n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Samaria.
2. A member of a people inhabiting present-day Israel and the West Bank who trace their ancestry to the ancient Israelites and practice a religion related to pre-rabbinical Judaism.
3. often samaritan A Good Samaritan.
adj.
Of or relating to Samaria or to Samaritans.

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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