Hamite

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A descendant of Ham, son of Noah, a member of the nations or peoples supposedly descended from Ham, i.e. the North African and the Horn African peoples.

    "And when in history he was taught about the Africans as Hamites who had been cursed by Noah, everything including his family, his people and the priests fell into place."

  2. 2
    Any member of the Hamites.

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"And when in history he was taught about the Africans as Hamites who had been cursed by Noah, everything including his family, his people and the priests fell into place."

Etymology

From Ham + -ite. Coined in the first half of the 19th century along with Semite and Japhetite and the adjectives Hamitic, Semitic, Japhetitic.

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horn of africanorth africa

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