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Definition of Hittite

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Hittite people or their language or culture.

2. Noun. A member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC.

3. Noun. The language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions.

Definition of Hittite

1. n. A member of an ancient people (or perhaps group of peoples) whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor and southward into Palestine. They are known to have been met along the Orontes as early as 1500 b. c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made.

Definition of Hittite

1. Noun. A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia. ¹

2. Proper noun. An ancient Indo-European language of the Anatolian branch, attested from the 16th century BC until the 13th century BC. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or relating to the Hittite people. ¹

4. Adjective. Of or relating to the Hittite language. ¹

5. Adjective. Of or relating to the Hittite Kingdom, located in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), that flourished from about 1800 to 1400 (B.C.E.). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hittite

Hitchings Hitchins Hitchinson Hitchiti Hitchon Hitler Hitler mustache Hitler mustaches Hitlerian Hitlerish

Hitlerism Hitlerite Hitlerites Hitlerlike Hitlers Hittite (current term) Hittites Hittitologist Hittitologists Hittitology

Hittorf's phosphorus Hitzig Hitzig's girdle Hixkaryana Hixon Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizballah Hizbollah Hizbullah Hizzoner

Literary usage of Hittite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"In any case there is nothing in the Hittite art of Pteria that is original or shows individuality, if we except the two-headed eagle, which is evidently ..."

2. Archaeology and the Bible by George Aaron Barton (1916)
"They are mentioned most often in the list of peoples whom the Israelites drove out of the country when they conquered it: "the Canaanite, the Hittite, ..."

3. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"At what period the extension of Hittite settlements began it is as yet impossible ... The decipherment of the Hittite inscriptions which would throw so much ..."

4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1907)
"The larger proportion of the tablets is in the native Hittite language, though the characters in which they are inscribed are the cuneiform characters of ..."

5. Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans: the Results of Researches and by Heinrich Schliemann (1880)
"Five years ago, in the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (vi 1876), I endeavoured to trace it to the still unde- ciphered Hittite ..."

6. The Empire of the Hittites by William Wright, Archibald Henry Sayce, Charles William Wilson, Claude Reignier Conder, William Harry Rylands (1884)
"GEOGRAPHICAL EXTENT OF THE Hittite EMPIRE. WE may estimate the extent of the Hittite empire from the vast number of local Hittite names mentioned in the ..."

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