Gileadite

[ gil-ee-uh-dahyt ]

noun

1. a member of a branch of the Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh.
2. an inhabitant of ancient Gilead.

Gileadite

/ ˈɡɪlɪəˌdaɪt /

noun

1. an inhabitant of the region of Gilead
2. a descendant of Gilead (the man)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gileadite¹

Gilead + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

To digress, why do you most admire Jephthah’s daughter, the gentle Gileadite?”

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Her brother’s career was threatened by the results of his own imprudence, and though her father could hardly be compared with the Gileadite warrior, there was, Vane imagined, a disturbing similarity between the two cases.

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And could she not be as resolute as the daughter of the Gileadite?

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“Well, look up the daughter of the warrior Gileadite, and fair Rosamond, and angered Eleanor, and Fulvia, and Joan of Arc.”

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There is a young Gileadite running beside us, a fine fellow about eighteen years old, with his white robe girded up about his loins, leaving his brown legs bare.

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