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Holy Land en · PROPN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. That part of the Middle East, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set.
2. (UK, obsolete, slang) The Seven Dials area of London, England.
   • 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”. 2016, Valeria Tinkler-Villani, editor, Babylon or New Jerusalem?: Perceptions of the City in Literature, page 101:

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Holy Lander

Translations (34)

es Tierra Santa (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · eo Sankta Lando (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · ga An Tír Bheannaithe (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · la Terra Sancta (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · fr Terre Sainte (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · cs Svatá země (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · vi Đất Thánh (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · ar اَلْأَرْض اَلْمُقَدَّسَة (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · ja 聖地 (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · he אֶרֶץ הַקֹּדֶשׁ (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · cs Svatá zem (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · ko 성지 (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · nrf Tèrre Sainte (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · cmn 聖地 /圣地 (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · gl Terra Santa (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · hy Սուրբ Երկիր (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · el Άγιοι Τόποι (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · da Det Hellige Land (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · sv det heliga landet (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · nn Det heilage landet (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · ga An Talamh Naofa (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · sh Света земља (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · it Terra Santa (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · ru Свята́я земля́ (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · pl Ziemia Święta (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · sh Sveta zemlja (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · fi Pyhä maa (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · ur دَیارِ مُقَدَّسَہ (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · nb Det hellige land (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · it Terrasanta (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · de Heiliges Land (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · ur اَرْضِ مُقَدَّسَہ (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · pt Terra Santa (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set) · nl Heilig Land (that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set)