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Answer for the clue "Grandson of Noah ", 6 letters:
hamite
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Word definitions for hamite in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hamite \Ham"ite\ (h[a^]m"[imac]t), n. A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Ham (see Hamitic ) + -ite (1).
Usage examples of hamite.
The shelves to the right of my desk are laden with busts of all the typical ethnic types found in Africa, Hamites, Arabs, pygmies, the negroids, Boskops, bushmen, Griqua, Hottentot and all the others.
Africa they are customarily divided by anthropologists into two great branches, eastern Hamites and northern Hamites.
On the contrary, they were overwhelmed by such immigrants -- by relatively barbarian Hamites like the Bahima, Lwoo, and Masai -- and this over a period of several centuries, for the Bahima had reached the height of their power in Uganda by about 1600, while the Masai were not at the height of theirs, in Kenya and Tanganyika, until 18001850.
Then Nguni invaders from the south, a century later, destroyed this state, completing the destruction of this southern civilization in much the same way as barbarian Hamites had already destroyed the earlier and technically simpler civilization of the Azanians in East Africa.
Asiatic Hamites, and the Semitic adoption of the Hamitic gods and religious system.
Peru that all the languages of the Hamites, Semites, and Japhethites are varieties of one aboriginal speech.
He believed the Nkonde, a gentle, peace-loving people, were descendents of the Hamites, the lost tribe of Israel.
The Sumerians had something the succeeding Hamites, Semites and Aryans lacked.