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What is "anti-semite"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anti-semite
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And now he has been put down, made to seem anti-Semitic, by a probable anti-Semite.
▪ As noted in chapter 4, its action program originally was based on pamphleteering and letter-writing to persuade anti-Semites of their error.
▪ He had no evidence - nothing but an anonymous letter which might easily be the work of some anti-Semite.
▪ In spite of his attributes, he believed that witchcraft was running rampant and appears to have been an anti-Semite.
▪ Oh, now he gets on his high horse and accuses me of being an anti-Semite!
▪ There is one allegation that could never be made against Harold Wilson: that he was an anti-Semite.
▪ What if, for example, she were an anti-Semite?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anti-Semite

Anti-Semitism \An`ti-Sem"i*tism\, n. Opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, esp. Jews. The word is sometimes also applied to acts motivated by or evincing antisemitism. -- An`ti-Sem"ite, n. -- An`ti-Sem*it"ic, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anti-Semite

1881, see anti-Semitism.

WordNet
anti-semite

  1. adj. discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [syn: racist, antiblack, anti-Semitic, anti-Semite(a)]

  2. n. someone who hates and would persecute Jews [syn: Jew-baiter]

Usage examples of "anti-semite".

Although Jews were prominent in the northern and western Democratic machines, there were several outspoken anti-Semites among the Dixiecratic contingent in Congress and Roosevelt would never think of separating from them.

It would be an exaggeration to say that they were philo- rather than anti-Semites, and an anachronism to conceive of them as precursors of the modern interreligious spirit.

The movement was discredited by the fact that all the anti-Semites, from the government to the Naras, favoured emigration to Palestine.

All these cocksuckers are bound to be anti-Semites, because if they aren't, how come there are no Jews anywhere in England I've heard of, huh?