<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 B.C.</li><li>an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, preserved in cuneiform inscriptions of the second millennium B.C.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of, relating to, or belonging to the Hittites or their language.</li></ul>