Samaritan

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Samaritan/səˈmarɪtən/

▶noun

• 1 (usu. good Samaritan) a charitable or helpful person (with reference to Luke 10:33).

• 2 a member of a people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times, or of the modern community claiming descent from them.

• 3 the dialect of Aramaic formerly spoken in Samaria.

• 4 (the Samaritans) (in the UK) an organization which counsels those in distress, mainly through a telephone service.

▶adjective relating to Samaria or the Samaritans.

– derivatives
Samaritanism noun.

– origin from late L. Samaritanus, from Gk Samareitēs, from Samareia ‘Samaria’.