Holy Land
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Holy Land. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Holy Land, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Holy Land in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Holy Land you have here. The definition of the word Holy Land will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofHoly Land, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: Holyland
English
Proper noun
- (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) That part of the Middle East, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) The Seven Dials area of London, England.
- 2016, Valeria Tinkler-Villani, editor, Babylon or New Jerusalem?: Perceptions of the City in Literature, page 101:
- Before returning to Dickens's accounts of these places, it is interesting to read what Charles Booth had to say of Shelton Street as he saw it in 1889, at a time when wholesale demolitions carried out for the construction of New Oxford Street in 1847 and Shaftesbury Avenue in 1885 had cut a swathe through “the Holy Land”.
Translations
that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set
|
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary