anti-Semite

[ an-tee-sem-ahyt, an-tahy- or, esp. British, -see-mahyt ]

/ ˌæn tiˈsɛm aɪt, ˌæn taɪ- or, esp. British, -ˈsi maɪt /

noun

a person who discriminates against or is prejudiced or hostile toward Jews.

Origin of anti-Semite

First recorded in 1880–85

OTHER WORDS FROM anti-Semite

an·ti-Se·mit·ic

[an-tee-suh-mit-ik, an-tahy-] /ˌæn ti səˈmɪt ɪk, ˌæn taɪ-/, adjective an·ti-Se·mit·i·cal·ly, adverb

Example sentences from the Web for anti-semitic

The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.

The Price of Steve Scalise’s Silence |Jason Berry |January 7, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Parliament looks at measures to monitor toddlers for anti-Semitic speech.

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Though he would insist in a famous essay in Other Inquisitions that “For several reasons I am not anti-Semitic.”

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Police will be studying footage from surveillance cameras that captured many of the anti-Semitic perpetrators in the act.

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Surely the former president of the United States is not about to tell an anti-Semitic story in front of people he hardly knows.

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Its central office will be in London, so as to be under the legal protection of a power which is not at present Anti-Semitic.

The Jewish State |Theodor Herzl
The articles of this anti-Semitic "constitution" were also embodied in the "Lithuanian Statute" promulgated in 1566.

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume I (of 3) |S. M. Dubnow
But, like all anti-semitic myths of old, the new anti-Jewish legends are bound to destroy themselves.

The History of a Lie |Herman Bernstein
But for some time, the devil knows why, Kuratchka had been reading the anti-Semitic papers, and he was an altered man.

Jewish Children |Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
This King had frequent occasion to fight the growing anti-Semitic tendencies of the Shlakhta, the municipalities, and the clergy.

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume I (of 3) |S. M. Dubnow

British Dictionary definitions for anti-semitic (1 of 2)

anti-Semitic

adjective

prejudiced against or hostile to Jews

Derived forms of anti-Semitic

anti-Semitically, adverb

British Dictionary definitions for anti-semitic (2 of 2)

anti-Semite

noun

a person who persecutes or discriminates against Jews

Derived forms of anti-Semite

anti-Semitism, noun

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anti-Semite

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adjective

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noun

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