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Definition of Samaritan noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

Samaritan

noun

NAmE//səˈmærətn//

Idioms

a good Samaritan

a person who gives help and sympathy to people who need it From the Bible story of a person from Samaria who helps an injured man that no one else will help

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