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say it: KAY-nuh-nahyt
canaanite is a noun meaning "a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites". It is pronounced /ˈkeɪnəˌnaɪt/ — KAY-nuh-nahyt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites
the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for canaanite come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.