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Mesopotamia dweller
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aramean
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a. (alternative spelling of Aramaean English) n. (alternative spelling of Aramaean English) n. (alternative spelling of Aramaean English)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aramaean \Ar`a*m[ae]an\, Aramean \Ar`a*me"an\, [L. Aramaeus, Gr. ?, fr. He Ar[=a]m, i. e. Highland, a name given to Syria and Mesopotamia.] Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramai -- n. A native of Aram.
Usage examples of aramean.
Arameans, directly derived from that of Chaldea, as it was narrated in the celebrated Sanctuary of Hierapolis, or Bambyce.
The Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Phoenicians, the Jews, the Arameans, the Chaldeans, all of them Semites, had been the rulers of western Asia for thirty or forty centuries.
This, of course, is entirely wrong, Ear the Canaanites, if we go by linguistic divisions, were as Semitic as the Israelites, the Arameans, the Babylonians, and the Arabs.
From the Arameans, who first settled in the area now known as Syria, came the Aramaic language, in which some passages of the Old Testament are written.
For a time Assyria expanded, but eventually it fell into stagnation and merely defended itself against the nomads from the south, the Arameans.