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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An ancient city of Assyria on the Tigris River opposite the site of present-day Mosul, Iraq. As capital of the Assyrian Empire, it enjoyed great influence and prosperity, especially under Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal (seventh century BC). The city was captured and destroyed by Babylonia and its allies in 612 BC.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of “motion” or puppet-show, representing the story of Jonah and the whale.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun An ancient Assyrian city.

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  • proper noun The ancient capital of Assyria.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq

Etymologies

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Uncertain. Possibly it meant originally the seat of Ishtar, since Nina was one of the Babylonian names of that goddess.

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