Canaanite

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

• noun A member of a group of Semitic peoples inhabiting Canaan from late prehistoric times, including the Israelites and Phoenicians.
• noun In the Bible, a member of any of the Canaanite peoples other than the Israelites.
• noun A subbranch of the Semitic language family including Phoenician, Hebrew, Ammonite, Moabite, and Edomite.
• noun Any of the Semitic languages spoken by the Canaanites.
• adjective Of or relating to ancient Canaan or its people, language, or culture.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A descendant of Canaan, son of Ham (Gen. x. 15-19); more generally, one of the primitive inhabitants of the land of Canaan, named from him, lying between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, and included in modern Palestine.
• noun A title of one of the twelve apostles (“Simon the Canaanite,” Mat: x. 4), called elsewhere (Luke vi. 15, Acts i. 13) Zelotes, that is, the zealot: it is a transliteration of an Aramaic word signifying zeal, or a zealot.
• noun [lowercase] A variety of massive white pyroxene occurring in limestone at Canaan, Connecticut.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.
• noun A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
• noun A zealot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• proper noun An ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites.
• proper noun A subfamily of the Semitic languages, which were spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Israelites, Phoenicians, and Philistines.
• noun A member of the ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites.
• noun by extension A zealot or fanatic.
• noun A member of the Canaanism movement.
• adjective Of or pertaining to the people or language of Canaan.
• adjective Of or pertaining to this sect or its followers; Canaanitic
• adjective by extension zealous or fanatical.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest
• noun a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites