Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to ancient Sumer or its people, language, or culture.
- noun A member of an ancient people, probably of non-Semitic origin, who established a nation of city-states in Sumer in the fourth millennium BC that is one of the earliest known historic civilizations.
- noun The language of the Sumerians, of no known linguistic affiliation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Accadian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the region of lower Babylonia, which was anciently called
Sumer , or its inhabitants or their language. - noun A native of lower Babylonia, anciently called Sumer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, from or pertaining to
Sumer . - adjective Of, from or pertaining lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Šumer in Akkadian.
- noun A person of
Sumer . - noun A native of lower
Babylonia , called Šumer in Akkadian. - proper noun The ancient language spoken in
Sumer , a language isolate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants
- noun a member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer
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Examples
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This event is traced in Sumerian writings and later Jewish biblical scrolls as the great flood.
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(I resolutely resisted the temptation to take the easy road and use modern words as loan words in Sumerian, which would have ruined the whole experiment).
Boing Boing: January 11, 2004 - January 17, 2004 Archives 2004
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This is all well and good for purposes of plot, but Stephenson wraps all of this in Sumerian mythos.
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Sound: Born of Osiris have come a long way since their deviation from the metalcore sound they employed prior to getting signed by up-and-coming label Sumerian Records.
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Sound: Born of Osiris have come a long way since their deviation from the metalcore sound they employed prior to getting signed by up-and-coming label Sumerian Records.
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But how did the band manage to get the attention of small-but-celebrated California indie label Sumerian Records when everyone was still in high school?
East Bay Express 2009
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Beside the fertile tract of country above Hit on the Euphrates -- a land which has been identified as the Sumerian Garden of Eden -- stretches
A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden Donald Maxwell 1906
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This is the case even in what is called the Sumerian system itself, and when its signs and processes were borrowed by other nations, the tendency to abandon figuration was of course still more marked.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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The question is only of secondary importance, but M. Halévy enlarges its scope by reopening the whole matter of debate between himself and M. Oppert as to the true character of what Assyriologists call the Sumerian language and written character.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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The fermented cereal beverage enjoyed by Sumerians, so-called Sumerian beer, may have been alcohol-free, suggests a recent review of ancient Sumerian practices.
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