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S vs Samaritan - What's the difference?

s | samaritan |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun samaritan is

a good samaritan.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    samaritan

    English

    (wikipedia Samaritan)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A native, or inhabitant of Samaria; especially one practising the religious traditions originating in that region.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 62:
    • Many of these despised people built a rival temple on Mount Gerizim in the central Palestinian territory known as Samaria, and hence they were called Samaritans (a word of contempt to Jews); in very reduced numbers, they still live round their sacred mountain now.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to Samaria or Samaritans.