promised land
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The area historically known as Judea, which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis.
name
noun
Any place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Promised Land.
Example Sentences
- "At last, after years of patient waiting, he stood like Moses on the mountain, looking down into the Promised Land."
- ""Be good, my boy, and God will make you great." Then she said she was cold, and . . . murmured: "I'll away, I'll away to the Promised Land—to the Promised Land. […] It is cold—so cold—God keep my boy!""
- "On Sunday night, April 29, 1900 Engineman John Luther Jones, called "Casey", […] took his farewell journey to the promised land."
- "The country, too, which had been the promised land of my boyhood, did not, like most promised lands, disappoint me."
- "When Frances had developed her plan, she intimated, in some closing sentences, her hopes for the future. […] [A]nd what was to hinder us from going to live in England? England was still her Promised Land."
- "That is the danger that always menaces people when they get over into their Promised Land."
Inflected Forms
the Promised Land (canonical)
Promised Lands (plural)