- Also called: the Holy Land, Canaan the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in which most of the biblical narrative is located
- the province of the Roman Empire in this region
- the former British mandatory territory created by the League of Nations in 1922 (but effective from 1920), and including all of the present territories of Israel and Jordan between whom it was partitioned by the UN in 1948
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Pal•es•tine
(pal′ə stīn′ for 1, 2; pal′ə stēn′ for 3),USA pronunciation n.
- Place NamesAlso called Holy Land. Biblical name, Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- Place Namesa former British mandate (1923–48) comprising part of this country, divided between Israel, Jordan, and Egypt in 1948: the Jordanian and Egyptian parts were occupied by Israel in 1967.
- Place Namesa city in E Texas. 15,948.
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Palestine /ˈpælɪˌstaɪn/ n
'Palestine' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Allenby
- Arimathea
- Armageddon
- Bar Kochba
- Beersheba
- Bernadotte
- Bunche
- Caesarea
- Diaspora
- Essene
- Gadarene
- Gibeon
- Herod Agrippa II
- Holy Land
- Israel
- Jerusalem
- Jordan
- Judaea
- Judaean
- Kempe
- Luria
- Megiddo
- Pal.
- Palestinian
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- Palestinian Administered Territories
- Peraea
- Philistia
- Philistian
- PLO
- Samaria
- Shiloh
- Tiglath-pileser III
- West Bank
- Wilderness
- Zealot
- Zionism
- Abel-meholah
- Al Fatah
- aliyah
- amora
- Anakim
- Arafat
- Aramaic
- Arimathaea
- Balfour Declaration
- Bashan
- Biblical Aramaic
- Canaan
- Canaanite