English Explanatory Dictionary

anti-Semite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone with anti-Semitic views.

Pronunciation

/ˌæntiˈsɛmaɪt/ /ˌæntaɪ-/ /ˌæntiˈsiːmaɪt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-anti-Semite.wav

Word forms

anti-Semite anti-Semites

Etymology

1881, from German Antisemit (coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1879 as a scientific-sounding self-identification), from German antisemitisch (coined by Moritz Steinschneider in 1860), from anti- + semitisch

Antonyms

philo-Semite

Related words

anti-Semitic anti-Semitism
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