JORDAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jordan mean? 

• JORDAN (noun)
  The noun JORDAN has 2 senses:

1. a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan

2. an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea

  Familiarity information: JORDAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JORDAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Jordan; Jordan River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

Canaan; Holy Land; Palestine; Promised Land (an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Jordan

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Jordan"):

Amman; capital of Jordan (the capital and largest city of Jordan)

Akaba; Al Aqabah; Aqaba (Jordan's port; located in southwestern Jordan on the Gulf of Aqaba)

Az Zarqa; Zarqa (city in northwestern Jordan)

Syrian Desert (a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia)

Dead Sea (a saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan; its surface in 1292 feet below sea level)

Meronyms (members of "Jordan"):

Jordanian (a native or inhabitant of Jordan)

Domain member region:

al-Asifa; al-Fatah; Fatah (a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups)

Black September Movement (a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich killed 11 Israeli athletes)

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

Middle East; Mideast; Near East (the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century)

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)

Holonyms ("Jordan" is a member of...):

Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)

Derivation:

Jordanian (of or relating to or characteristic of Jordan or its people)

 Context examples 

I think I have read something about them. Dr. Jordan’s book, I believe.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Why, ’twas but the other day that the Duke of Clarence, who may come to call himself King of England, married Mrs. Jordan, who is herself only a play-actress.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Denotes a person having origins in the region of southwest Asia, between the India subcontinent and Europe, including Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, lands east of Pakistan or the other countries of the Arabian Peninsula.

(Middle Eastern, NCI Thesaurus)

“Do you know Dr. Jordan’s final test of truth?” Maud asked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“When I dismantled my old Pantheon and cast out Napoleon and Cæsar and their fellows, I straightway erected a new Pantheon,” she answered gravely, “and the first I installed was Dr. Jordan.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The holluschickie haul out by themselves, and Dr. Jordan says that paths are left between the harems, and that as long as the holluschickie keep strictly to the path they are unmolested by the masters of the harem.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Do you come to these parties often?" inquired Jordan of the girl beside her.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

With Jordan's slender golden arm resting in mine we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Did you keep it?" asked Jordan.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)