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单词 holy land
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Holy Landn.

Etymology: translating medieval Latin (11th cent.) terra sancta, French terre sainte.
1. Western Palestine, or, more particularly, Judæa: so called as being the scene of the life and death of Jesus Christ, and (with reference to the Crusades) as containing the Holy Sepulchre; sometimes, in later use, as being the scene of the development of the Jewish and Christian religions.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [noun] > Middle East > Holy Land
Holy Land1297
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [noun] > Middle East > Israel
land of behesta1200
Holy Land1297
land of promise (promission, repromission, behest)c1300
Jewryc1384
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 392 Of so muche folc nyme þe croys, ne to þe holy londe go, Me ne sey no tyme byuore, ne suþþe naþemo.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 22 We shul preyen..for ye holy londe and ye holy crosse, yat godd..bryng it oute of hethen power.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) Pref. 1 Þe land of repromission, þat men calles þe Haly Land.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. vi. 49 Ile make a voiage to the holly lande . View more context for this quotation
1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 98 To restore the Possessions of the Christians in the Holy Land.
1758 (title) Travels through Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and the Holy Land; containing..A Description..4. Of the Holy Land, particularly of Jerusalem and the Holy Places.
1803 H. K. White Gondoline in Clifton Grove 40 And he was gone to the Holy Land To fight the Saracen.
2. slang. The parish of St. Giles's, London.
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vintrya1456
steelyard1474
tower hillc1480
city1556
Bow-bell1600
row1607
gate1723
east end1742
Mayfair1754
garden1763
warren1769
west?1789
the Borough1797
west end1807
Holy Land1821
Belgravia1848
Tyburnia1848
Mesopotamia1850
South Kensington1862
Dockland1904
South Ken1933
Fitzrovia1958
square mile1966
1821 The Fancy I. 250 (Farmer) The Holy-land, as St. Giles's has been termed, in compliment to the superior purity of its Irish population.
1891 Licensed Vict. Gaz. 3 Apr. 215/1 (Farmer) Whether the Irishmen of the Holy Land or the Hebrew scum of Petticoat Lane.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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