Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Ammon, mentioned frequently in the Bible.
  • noun The Semitic language of the Ammonites.

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  • noun Native or inhabitant of Ammon
  • proper noun Extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people who used to live in modern-day northwest Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. Extinct since 5th century BCE.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Late Latin Ammōnītēs, the Ammonites, from Hebrew ‘ammônî, Ammonite, from ‘ammôn, Ammon, perhaps of Canaanite origin; see עmm in Semitic roots.]

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Examples

  • What Ammonite is ultimately about is memory and identity and how one affects the other.

    Telling Stories « So Many Books 2004

  • Ammonites -- that is, the Ammonite region is to be a "couching place for flocks," namely of the Arabs.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • What reason could she have to believe the Ammonite was a shell?

    Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Q: Stay is a move into the mystery genre, as opposed to earlier science-fiction work, such as Ammonite and Slow River.

    Happy Book News 2006

  • Q: Stay is a move into the mystery genre, as opposed to earlier science-fiction work, such as Ammonite and Slow River.

    Happy Book News 2006

  • Q: Stay is a move into the mystery genre, as opposed to earlier science-fiction work, such as Ammonite and Slow River.

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  • "Ammonite" Palestinians are fighting over land that doesn't belong to them.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Ammonite Energy Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: AMO) ( "Ammonite" or the "Company") announces unaudited financial and operating results for the three months ended June 30, 2009.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2009

  • Various forms of the fossils are supposed to represent various _avatârs_ of Vishnu (Balfour, _Cyclopaedia_, 3rd ed., s.v. 'Ammonite', 'Gandak', 'Salagrama'; M. Williams, _Religious

    Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822

  • So, I shelved it, and spent the rest of the afternoon proofing The Ammonite Violin & Others.

    "I will battle for the sun..." yuki_onna 2009

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