Jerusalemite
adjective, noun
Jerusalemite is an adjective meaning “Of, from, or pertaining to Jerusalem” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled J-E-R-U-S-A-L-E-M-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Jerusalemite mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, from, or pertaining to Jerusalem.
noun
- 1
A native or resident of Jerusalem.
- 2
A residual mineral of the sands of Jerusalem, as with Trinitite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Jerusalemite?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Jerusalemite.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Jerusalemite
- Jerusalemites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Jerusalemite?
Jerusalemite appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Jerusalemite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hiérosolymitain, hiérosolymitaine, hiérosolymite , Hiérosolymitain, Hiérosolymitaine, Hiérosolymite |
| German | jerusalemisch, Jerusalemer, Jerusalem- , Jerusalemerin |
| Portuguese | hierosolimitano, hierosolimita, jerosolimita, jerosolimitano |
| Spanish | hierosolimitano , jerosolimitano |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Jerusalemite come from?
From Jerusalem + -ite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).