palestine
/ˈpæləˌstaɪn/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
Meaning
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A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.
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A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.
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The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
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A British colonial entity administering approximately the lands mentioned in definition 1.
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The British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, of which this region was a part (the remainder being Transjordan, which covered approximately the lands of the modern Kingdom (originally Emirate) of Jordan).
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Any of four Ancient Roman and Byzantine provinces in the eastern Mediterranean: Syria Palaestina, Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda and Palaestina Salutaris.
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The Biblical Land of Israel, roughly corresponding to the northern part of modern-day Israel proper, the West Bank, and northwest Jordan.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry."
- "Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power."
- "Gad, in ancient geography, a district of Transjordan Palestine, situated between Gilead and the kingdom of Bashan on the north, and that of the Amorites to the south, having the Jordan to the west, and bounded by various nations on the east, so called from the tribe of that name."
- "In the west, moreover, as we have seen, he crushed Damascus, and forced Phenicia, Edom, the kingdom of Israel, and "Palestine" or Philistia, to continue the tribute they had agreed to pay Shalmaneser II."
- "The Paleſtines aſſailing the Hebrewes, are overcome by them in battell."
- "[…] Iſaac went to Abimelech king of the Paleſtines to Gerara."