saracen

English Thesaurus

1. (historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades (noun.person)

hypernym	:	moslem, muslim,
definition	:	a believer in or follower of Islam (noun.person)

domain category	:	history,
definition	:	the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (noun.cognition)

2. (historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire (noun.person)

hypernym	:	nomad,
definition	:	a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons (noun.person)

domain category	:	history,
definition	:	the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (noun.cognition)

3. (when used broadly) any Arab (noun.person)

hypernym	:	arab, arabian,
definition	:	a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa (noun.person)