Cisjordanianadj.n.
/ˌsɪsdʒɔːˈdeɪnɪən/, U.S. /ˌsɪsˌdʒɔrˈdeɪniən/ A. adj.
Of or relating to the land to the west of the River Jordan; spec. denoting a region west of the River Jordan and north-west of the Dead Sea, now forming part of the Palestinian territories; = West Bank n. Cf. Transjordanian adj.
ΚΠ
1929 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 388/2 There is a working alliance between British diplomacy, the Sudan Government, and Cisjordanian brains of German origin and English nationality.
1960 Jewish Q. Rev. 50 195 Successive waves of Israelites..began penetrating mainly into the cisjordanian mountainous massif.
1983 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 51 581 The domestic structures of the small unfortified villages throughout the Cisjordanian highlands were consistently small and crudely built.
2012 M. Machover Israelis & Palestinians xxviii. 235 Had Israel itself not started from small and modest beginnings, only to expand over the whole of Cisjordanian Palestine?
B. n.
A native or inhabitant of the land to the west of the River Jordan. Chiefly in biblical contexts. Cf. Transjordanian n.
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1958 R. Bullard Middle East (ed. 3) Introd. 27 The Cisjordanians secured half or more than half of the ministries and high official posts.
1986 D. Jobling Sense Biblical Narr. II. ii. i. 93 Those settling in the west will correspondingly be called the Cisjordanians.
2009 R. L. Hubbard Joshua 490 The Cisjordanians assume that an altar serves only one purpose, as a place for sacrificing.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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