Palestine

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

//ˈpæləˌstaɪn//
//ˈpæləˌstiːn//

A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.

proper noun

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A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.
Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
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A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people. The West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.
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historicalA British colonial entity administering approximately the lands mentioned in definition 1.
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historicalThe British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, of which this region was a part (the remainder being Transjordan, which covered approximately the lands of the modern Kingdom (originally Emirate) of Jordan).
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historicalAny of four Ancient Roman and Byzantine provinces in the eastern Mediterranean: Syria Palaestina, Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda and Palaestina Salutaris.
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obsoleteThe Biblical Land of Israel, roughly corresponding to the northern part of modern-day Israel proper, the West Bank, and northwest Jordan.
Gad, in ancient geography, a district of Transjordan Palestine, situated between Gilead and the kingdom of Bashan on the north, and that of the Amorites to the south, having the Jordan to the west, and bounded by various nations on the east, so called from the tribe of that name.
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obsoletePhilistia, a region in the Levant inhabited by the ancient Philistines.
In the west, moreover, as we have seen, he crushed Damascus, and forced Phenicia, Edom, the kingdom of Israel, and "Palestine" or Philistia, to continue the tribute they had agreed to pay Shalmaneser II.
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A number of places in the United States: A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas.
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A number of places in the United States: A community in Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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A number of places in the United States: A village in Crawford County, Illinois.
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A number of places in the United States: A township in Woodford County, Illinois.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Brookville Township, Franklin County, Indiana.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Harrison Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
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A number of places in the United States: An extinct town in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
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A number of places in the United States: A township in Story County, Iowa.
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A number of places in the United States: A township in Cooper County, Missouri.
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A number of places in the United States: A village in Darke County, Ohio.
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A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Anderson County, Texas, United States.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.
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A community in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
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A village in Over Wallop parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2640).

Etymology

From Middle English Palestyne, from Old English Palestina, from Latin Palaestīna (“Roman province of Palestine”), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē, “Philistia and the surrounding region”), from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia, land of the Philistines”). The term P-l-s-t or P-r-s-t, found in five Ancient Egyptian inscriptions (beginning with one at Medinet Habu from circa 1170 BCE and ending with Padiiset's Statue inscription from circa 900-850 BCE) as the name of a people near Egypt, is traditionally taken to be cognate. Seven Assyrian inscriptions contain the word "Palas(h)tu" or "Pilistu", which is usually also taken to be cognate.

noun

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archaicA Philistine.
The Paleſtines aſſailing the Hebrewes, are overcome by them in battell.
[…] Iſaac went to Abimelech king of the Paleſtines to Gerara.
The Paleſtines, by extraordinary uſury, at fifty per cent. had poſſeſſed themſelves of almoſt all the riches of the country.

Etymology

From Latin Palaestinus, from Ancient Greek Παλαιστινὸς (Palaistinòs). Cognate with Middle French palestin, Palestin.

Forms

plural: Palestines

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