Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The biblical region of Palestine.
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- proper noun That part of
Asia , consisting mostly ofIsrael andPalestine , in which mostBiblical events are set.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
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Examples
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Once again, the place they call the Holy Land is Ground Zero.
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Once again, the place they call the Holy Land is Ground Zero.
Night Light 2009
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Once again, the place they call the Holy Land is Ground Zero.
Night Light 2009
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Once again, the place they call the Holy Land is Ground Zero.
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"We long desperately for a situation in what many of us call the Holy Land where people can live in peace and in security," Tutu told journalists.
News24 2008
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For his last book, Carter was denounced by some as an anti-Semite and the best friend of terrorists; nevertheless, he accomplished what he set out to do: namely, to provoke a lively debate on this central foreign policy question of how to foster peace in what he calls the Holy Land (i.e.,
unknown title 2009
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A Peace Plan for the Holy Land is now being distributed to Christian leaders, here and in the Holy Land, which is based on the Old Testament, New Testament and Qur'an.
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The Holy Land was a lot farther away from their day to day life than the religious war that is on the edge breaking out right here at home, in racially and religiously mixed America.
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Mari dominated the area now known as the Holy Land until it fell to the armies of Hammurabi in 1700 B.C.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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I am flaming mad at my government and pathetic mainstream media who do not tell the truth about what is really going down in the Holy Land, which is all in pieces; Bantustans!
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