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/hˈɪtaɪt/ /hˈɪtˌaɪt/ Listen

Hittite

noun

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

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

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Indo-Hittite

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"Hittite" Quotes from Famous Books

... both the cultured Semites of Syria and the rude barbarians of the Greek Seas', he even says that the Hittites 'brought the civilization of the East to the barbarous tribes of the distant West'. What actually remains of Hittite art hardly bears out this statement. When the Hittite power was at its height, Minoan 'art' had long been practised in Crete, and according to the most popular chronology, had already passed its prime and given way to the ...

— The Legacy of Greece • Various

... where she was concerned, except a distinction far more profound than any social distinction—the historic distinction between Adam and Eve. She was balm to Priam Farll. She might have been equally balm to King David, Uriah the Hittite, Socrates, Rousseau, Lord Byron, Heine, or Charlie Peace. She would have understood them all. They would all have been ready to cushion themselves on her comfortableness. Was she a lady? Pish! ...

— Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days • Arnold Bennett

... being an old and experienced soldier, whose head hath grown grey in battle, shouldst give such advice to a young officer. Is not the General's commission to take away the wicked from the land, and to root out the Amalekite, and the Jebusite, and the Perizzite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite? and are not these men justly to be compared to the five kings, who took shelter in the cave of Makedah, who were delivered into the hands of Joshua the son of Nun? and ...

— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

Words linked to "Hittite" : habitant, dweller, Indo-Hittite, indweller, inhabitant, denizen, Anatolian language, Anatolian