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 northwestJordan , and after whom its capitalAmman is named. Extinct since 5th century BCE.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What Ammonite is ultimately about is memory and identity and how one affects the other.
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Ammonites -- that is, the Ammonite region is to be a "couching place for flocks," namely of the Arabs.
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What reason could she have to believe the Ammonite was a shell?
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
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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
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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
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Q: Stay is a move into the mystery genre, as opposed to earlier science-fiction work, such as Ammonite and Slow River.
September 2006 2006
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"Ammonite" Palestinians are fighting over land that doesn't belong to them.
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Ammonite Energy Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: AMO) ( "Ammonite" or the "Company") announces unaudited financial and operating results for the three months ended June 30, 2009.
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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
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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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