| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Ammonite |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Am·mon·ite |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   m  -n t |
| NOUN: | 1. A member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Ammon, mentioned frequently in the Bible. 2. The Semitic language of the Ammonites. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Late Latin Amm nt s, the Ammonites, from Hebrew ‘ammônî, Ammonite, from ‘ammôn, Ammon, perhaps of Canaanite origin. See cmm in Appendix II.
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