Samaritan

noun

• 1 (usually Good Samaritan) a charitable or helpful person (with reference to Luke 10:33): suddenly, miraculously, a Good Samaritan leaned over and handed the cashier a dollar bill on my behalf

• 2a member of a people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times, or of the modern community claiming descent from them, adhering to a form of Judaism accepting only its own ancient version of the Pentateuch as Scripture.

• 3 [mass noun] the dialect of Aramaic formerly spoken in Samaria.

• 4 (the Samaritans) (in the UK) an organization which counsels the suicidal and others in distress, mainly through a telephone service: I began volunteer work for the Samaritans

adjective

• relating to Samaria or the Samaritans: Jesus’s words to the Samaritan woman