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morning-land en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmɔɹ.nɪŋ.lænd/ (US)
• /ˈmɔː.nɪŋ.land/ (UK)

Etymology

From morning + land, translating German Morgenland, Luther's translation of Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “(sun-)rising”).

Meanings

1. (dated, poetic) The Orient; the East.
   • Still the old leaven remains behind: here, as elsewhere in the “Morning-land,” you cannot hold your own without employing the voie de fait. 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 18:
   • The Evening-Land (the West) embodies in itself the Morning-land; therefore both have a world-historic sense. 2007, Lin Ma, Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event, page 91:
   • Elsewhere he speaks of the “fresh air of the East,” the people in morning-land as living “at the very source of being,” among whom “doubts were few and broad was truth.” Thus the poet took up the East as more than a mere vesture […] 1906, The Contemporary Review, volume 90, page 170:
   • In this morning-land there is no room for worldly thoughts. See the Brahmins sitting under the mat umbrellas by the river-bank, looking out across the sunlit river into infinities of space! 1931, Lowell Thomas, India, Land of the Black Pagoda, page 213:
   • Even in modern times, the influence of this enchantment has led some learned and enthusiastic writers to describe India as the primal source of all knowledge and culture, the radiant morning-land of human civilization. 1988, John D. Baldwin, Pre-Historic Nations, page 216:
   • Where old Nile is everflowing, / And the Sphynx with heavy lids / Sits by ruins grim and sombre — / Onward to the Pyramids. […] Far in Morning Land I wandered / Where the summers never cease, / And Romance's golden waters / Ever run and murmur peace. 1852, C. P. Cranch, “The Palm Tree of Capri”, in Dwight's Journal of Music, page 26:

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