galilee
/ˈɡælɪliː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
name
name
The Sea of Galilee.
name
A village in Narragansett, Rhode Island.
Example Sentences
- "Last spring I organised a race for birdwatchers in Jenin, and we had 21 Palestinians participating. They came from as far as the Naqab desert and the Galilee."
Etymology
From late Middle English galilie, from Old French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea (“Galilee”). Possibly the allusion is to Galilee being an outlying region of Biblical Palestine.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: galilie, galilee, galilaea, Γᾰλῑλαίᾱ, גָּלִיל