Midianite
noun
Midianite is a noun meaning “A member of an ancient northern Arabian people” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-I-D-I-A-N-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Midianite is Midianites.
What does Midianite mean?
noun
- 1
A member of an ancient northern Arabian people.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Midianite
- Midianites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Midianite?
Midianite appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).
Midianite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense biblical tribe:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | madianita |
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 Midianite come from?
From Midian + -ite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).