Gileadite

American  

[gil-ee-uh-dahyt] / ˈgɪl i əˌdaɪt /

noun

1. a member of a branch of the Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh.

2. an inhabitant of ancient Gilead.

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Gileadite British  

/ ˈɡɪlɪəˌdaɪt /

noun

1. an inhabitant of the region of Gilead

2. a descendant of Gilead (the man)

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Etymology

Origin of Gileadite

Gilead + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

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.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry

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

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

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.

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold

I do not wonder that Barzillai, the wealthy Gileadite, lived to be eighty, for he stood in the perpetual sunshine of his beneficence.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)

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

From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.