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Adjective semitic has 2 senses

Semitic - of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; "Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology"
Semite, Semitic - of or relating to or characteristic of Semites; "Semite peoples"

Noun semitic has 1 sense

Semitic - a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
--₁ is a kind of Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semitic
--₁ has particulars:
Akkadian; Amharic, Ethiopian language; Arabic, Arabic language; Aramaic; Canaanitic, Canaanitic language