Definitions

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

  • noun A native or inhabitant of Samaria.
  • noun A member of a people inhabiting present-day Israel and the West Bank who trace their ancestry to the ancient Israelites and practice a religion related to pre-rabbinical Judaism.
  • noun A Good Samaritan.
  • adjective Of or relating to Samaria or to Samaritans.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Samaria, the central division of Palestine, lying north of Judea, or the city of Samaria, the capital of the kingdom of northern Israel.
  • Used by the Samaritans: applied to the characters of a kind of ancient Hebrew writing probably in use before, and partly after, the Babylonian exile.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of Samaria; specifically, one of a race settled in the cities of Samaria by the king of Assyria after the removal of the Israelites from the country (2 Ki. xvii. 24-41).
  • noun The language of Samaria, a compound of Hebrew, Syriac, and Chaldee.
  • noun A charitable or benevolent person: in allusion to the character of the “good Samaritan” in the parable Luke x. 30-37.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine.

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

  • noun A native, or inhabitant of Samaria; especially one practising the religious traditions originating in that region.
  • adjective Of, or relating to Samaria or Samaritans.

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

  • noun a member of the people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times

Etymologies

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

[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin Samarītānus, from Greek Samarītēs, from Samareia, Samaria.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin Samarītānus, from Ancient Greek Σαμαρείτης, from Σαμαρεία ("Samaria").

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Examples

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  • The Good Samaritan is a fictional weapon from Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics.

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  • Christ deliberately gives himself the name Samaritan… For he himself came to us, carrying out the intention of the Law and showing by his acts "who is our neighbor" and what it is "to love others as oneself".

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  • Christ deliberately gives himself the name Samaritan… For he himself came to us, carrying out the intention of the Law and showing by his acts "who is our neighbor" and what it is "to love others as oneself".

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