HOLY LAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Holy Land mean? 

• HOLY LAND (noun)
  The noun HOLY LAND has 1 sense:

1. an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism

  Familiarity information: HOLY LAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLY LAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Canaan; Holy Land; Palestine; Promised Land

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Holy Land"):

Juda; Judah (an ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center)

Judaea; Judea (the southern part of ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah; a Roman province at the time of Christ)

Samaria (an ancient city in central Palestine founded in the 9th century BC as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel; the site is in present-day northwestern Jordan)

Philistia (an ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine that was strategically located on a trade route between Syria and Egypt; important in biblical times)

Jordan; Jordan River (a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan)

Domain member region:

chebab (a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis)

Holonyms ("Holy Land" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

 Context examples 

He was preparing a map of the Holy Land, with special reference to the kingdom of the Midianites, upon which he was writing a monograph.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sight hast been burned from mine eyes by the sands of the Holy Land, and I have had neither crust of bread nor cup of wine these two days past.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond that is Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and the great river which hath its source in the Garden of Eden.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here you find us; and we cannot wonder that you, who are new to tumbling, should be astounded, since many great barons, earls, marshals and knights, who have wandered as far as the Holy Land, are of one mind in saying that they have never seen a more noble or gracious performance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)