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Shi'ite

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Noun

1. shi'ite, shi'ite muslim, shia muslim, shiite, shiite muslim

a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs

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Shi'ite

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noun
1. 
an adherent of Shia
adjective
2. 
of or relating to Shia

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Shi'ite

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noun
a member of one of the two great sects of Muslims: Shiites consider Ali, Mohammed's son-in-law and the fourth of the caliphs, as the first Imam and the rightful successor of Mohammed, and do not accept the Sunna as authoritative
see also Sunnite

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Shi'ite

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n.
A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali and his descendants as the legitimate successors to Muhammad and rejects the first three caliphs.
adj.
Of or relating to the Shiites or their branch of Islam.

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