Jerusalemite

English

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Jerusalem + -ite

Adjective

Jerusalemite (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Jerusalem.

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Noun

Jerusalemite (plural Jerusalemites)

  1. A native or resident of Jerusalem.
    • 2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13:
      I say this because, according to the old Jerusalemites, the building blocks of the world and its inhabitants were formed of the alphabet at the back of God's tongue when He pronounced the world […].
    • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem:
      Thousands of Jerusalemites gathered on the battl4ements to gawp at this show, admiring 'the beauty of their armour and admirable order of the men.'
  2. A residual mineral of the sands of Jerusalem, as with Trinitite.

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