| 单词 | the holy land |
| 释义 | the Holy Land in British English another name (used mainly by Christians) for Palestine (sense 1) See full dictionary entry for Holy LandPalestine in British English (ˈpælɪˌstaɪn) noun 1. 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 2. the province of the Roman Empire in this region 3. 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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