A general name for different peoples (e.g. the Jebusites), who dwelt in Canaan in the second and third millennia BCE.

The Canaanites is a political and aesthetic movement, which reached its peak in the 1940s among the Jewish residents in Palestine, and has significantly impacted the course of Israeli art, literature, and spiritual and political thought. The movement's original name was the Council for the Coalition of Hebrew Youth (Hebrew: הוועד לגיבוש הנוער העברי).

Biblical term for the people who possessed the biblical lands before the Israelites; general term for populations in the southern Levant