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My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life and were escaping from an anti-Semitic environment.
Francois Englert

Meaning of "anti-Semitic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTI-SEMITIC

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTI-SEMITIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Anti-Semitic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ANTI-SEMITIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Antisemitism

Antisemitism is prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group. A person who holds such positions is called an "antisemite". As Jews are an ethnoreligious group, antisemitism is generally considered a form of racism. While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic people, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass, and that has been its normal use since then. For the purposes of a 2005 U.S. governmental report, antisemitism was considered "hatred toward Jews—individually and as a group—that can be attributed to the Jewish religion and/or ethnicity." Antisemitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from expressions of hatred of or discrimination against individual Jews to organized violent attacks by mobs, state police, or even military attacks on entire Jewish communities. Although the term did not come into common usage until the 19th century, it is now also applied to historic anti-Jewish incidences.

Definition of anti-Semitic in the English dictionary

The definition of anti-Semitic in the dictionary is prejudiced against or hostile to Jews.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTI-SEMITIC

anti-inflammatory
anti-inflation
anti-inflationary
anti-intellectualism
anti-interference
Anti-Lebanon
anti-motion-sickness
anti-Nazi
anti-pill
anti-roll bar
anti-roman
anti-Semite
anti-Semitically
anti-Semitism
anti-site
anti-skid
anti-smoking
anti-social networking site
anti-Soviet
anti-Zionist

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTI-SEMITIC

Adamitic
critic
dolomitic
dynamitic
Edomitic
Elamitic
eremitic
Hamitic
Hamito-Semitic
hermitic
palmitic
Protosemitic
psammitic
Semitic
Semito-Hamitic
Shemitic
sodomitic
somitic
stalagmitic
termitic

Synonyms and antonyms of anti-Semitic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anti-Semitic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTI-SEMITIC

Find out the translation of anti-Semitic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of anti-Semitic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anti-Semitic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反犹太主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antisemita
570 millions of speakers

English

anti-Semitic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विरोधी सामी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معادية للسامية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

антисемитская
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anti -semita
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সেমিটিক বিরোধী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

antisémitique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

anti semitik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

antisemitische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

反ユダヤ主義の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반유대주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anti-Semit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chống Do Thái
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

யூத எதிர்ப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विरोधी सेमिटिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yahudi düşmanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antisemitico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antysemicki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

антисемітська
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

anti -semite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντισημιτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anti- Semitiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antisemitiska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anti - semittisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anti-Semitic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTI-SEMITIC»

The term «anti-Semitic» is regularly used and occupies the 56.915 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTI-SEMITIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «anti-Semitic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «anti-Semitic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anti-Semitic

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10 QUOTES WITH «ANTI-SEMITIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word anti-Semitic.
1
Michael Baden
It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.
2
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
3
Arthur Bryant
Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
4
Jim Caviezel
I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.
5
Hugo Chavez
It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
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Francois Englert
My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life and were escaping from an anti-Semitic environment.
7
Mary Gordon
My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.
8
Norman Jewison
I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
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Norman Jewison
And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
10
Spike Lee
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTI-SEMITIC»

Discover the use of anti-Semitic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anti-Semitic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English ...
This work focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews from roughly 1660 to 1830.
Frank Felsenstein, 1999
2
Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination
This book addresses one of the most hotly contested debates in contemporary cultural life: the question of how anti-Semitism figures in the operas of Richard Wagner.
Marc A. Weiner, 1997
3
Julius Streicher: Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-semitic ...
A look at the life and work of Julius Streicher (1885-1946) the editor of Der Sturmer a widely read anti-semitic weekly newspaper
Randall Bytwerk, 2001
4
The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Dreyfus, ...
Three Jews, Alfred Dreyfus, Mendel Beilis, and Leo Frank, were charged with heinous crimes in the generation before World War I, Dreyfus of treason in France, Beilis of ritual murder in Russia, and Frank of the murder of a young girl in the ...
Albert S. Lindemann, 1993
5
The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore
According to the blood libel legend, Jews murdered Christian infants to obtain blood to make matzah. Dundes has gathered here the work of leading scholars who examine the varied sources and elaborations of the legend.
Alan Dundes, 1991
6
Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Anti-Semitic Trials ...
This book examines a number of sensational trials involving anti-Semitism in early Imperial Germany.
Barnet Peretz Hartston, 2005
7
Within the Pale; the True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions ...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: .
Michael Davitt, 2013
8
Peace: the Arabian caricature : a study of anti-semitic imagery
This book contends, however, that although Israel has made numerous concessions on behalf of peace, Arab hostility continues, and that this hostility is particularly obvious in the caricatures of the Arabic state-owned and operated press.
Arie Stav, 1999
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Journalismus Als Beruf: Truth and the Anti-Semitic ...
Taken as a whole, this work questions the effectiveness of German Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, the assertions of those who proclaim Jewish authors to be profiteering from German guilt, and the field's tendency to overlook the years preceding ...
Robert Anthony Feldman, 2008
10
The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898
Anti-Semitic feelings that had been simmering in France for decades came boiling to the surface. Here Pierre Birnbaum guides readers on a tour of France during this crisis.
Pierre Birnbaum, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTI-SEMITIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anti-Semitic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Anti-Semitic pejoratives scrawled on London Jewish school
Figures released Friday by the Metropolitan Police show that anti-Semitic crimes rose last year by 138 percent, from 208 in 2013 to 495 in 2014 ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
2
Poll: Haredi Communities in London See Biggest Increase in Anti
Ultra-Orthodox Jews living in London are most likely to experience the rise of anti-Semitism, as new statistics show anti-Semitic crimes have ... «JP Updates, Jul 15»
3
Police investigating 'allegations of anti-Semitic comments' at Pride …
A group of Jewish participants in the annual march claimed they received a positive reception along the route until they reached a section of ... «Jewish News, Jul 15»
4
Northwestern University faces 3rd anti-Semitic incident this year
Construction workers reported graffiti on the windows of Ryan Field on campus, the vandalism consisting of swastikas and other anti-Semitic ... «Ynetnews, Jul 15»
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Did German police cover up anti-Semitic killing of UK Jewish student?
His death was ruled a suicide. But Jeremiah Duggan phoned his mother for help an hour before. Convinced her son was murdered for being ... «The Times of Israel, Jul 15»
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Apartment Ad Appears to Use Anti-Semitic Slur…Then Someone …
The word emblazoned on the apartment ads posted around a Brooklyn neighborhood gave some residents pause. The ads featured an image ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»
7
German Authorities Accused of Covering Up Alleged Anti-Semitic
The mother of deceased British student Jeremiah Duggan, Erica Duggan, held a press conference insisting that German authorities engaged in ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
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Anti-Semitic hostilities down in France, Germany and Belgium, ADL …
Anti-Semitic attitudes fell in two countries where Jews were attacked over the last year while rising significantly in Italy, Romania and the ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
9
Frydenberg tweeter has anti-Semitic form
THE AJN can reveal that the financial planner at the centre of a storm of criticism for anti-Semitic tweets about Assistant Treasurer Josh ... «Australian Jewish News, Jul 15»
10
Call for anti-Semitic protest to be ignored after police force it from …
Campaigners have been urged to ignore an anti-Semitic protest planned for Saturday and scrap plans for a counter-demonstration after police ... «Ham&High, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Anti-Semitic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/anti-semitic>. Apr 2024 ».
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