JERUSALEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jerusalem mean? 

• JERUSALEM (noun)
  The noun JERUSALEM has 1 sense:

1. capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom

  Familiarity information: JERUSALEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JERUSALEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Israel; Jerusalem

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Jerusalem"):

Holy Sepulcher; Holy Sepulchre (the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection)

Temple of Jerusalem; Temple of Solomon (any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall)

Calvary; Golgotha (a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified)

Sion; Zion (originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites); above it was built a temple and later the name extended to the whole hill; finally it became a synonym for the city of Jerusalem)

Wailing Wall (a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon)

Holonyms ("Jerusalem" is a part of...):

Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)

 Context examples 

I had it, together with this piece of the true rood, from the five-and-twentieth descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, who still lives in Jerusalem alive and well, though latterly much afflicted by boils.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He walked into society through it, and that was better worth reaching than Jerusalem.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Preacher who was king over Israel in Jerusalem thought as I think.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Our article is the first time such a large body of interdisciplinary evidence has been investigated in this context, said lead author Lee Mordechai of the synthesis center and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)

There was dust that thick in the place that you might have slep' on it without 'urtin' of yer bones; an' the place was that neglected that yer might 'ave smelled ole Jerusalem in it. But the ole chapel—that took the cike, that did! Me and my mate, we thort we wouldn't never git out quick enough.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Your bowmen have cleared a path to Paris, and why not to Jerusalem?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That is Buck Whalley, who walked to Jerusalem in a long blue coat, top-boots, and buckskins.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By his black robe and the eight-pointed cross upon his sleeve, Alleyne recognized him as one of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, whose presbytery was at Baddesley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, nay,” cried Alleyne, “this was a holy man who had journeyed to Jerusalem, and acquired a dropsy by running from the house of Pilate to the Mount of Olives.”

(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)