| 单词 | morning-land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmorning-land morning-land n. [after German Morgenland, Luther's translation of ancient Greek ἀνατολή (e.g. Matthew 2:1) rising (of the sun)] chiefly poetic (now rare) the East; the Orient. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun] eastwardeOE eastc1175 sunrisinga1382 orientc1385 sun-springa1400 eastwarda1450 eastwards?1574 sunristc1600 rising sun1613 aurora1617 morn1647 moonrise1728 morning-land1838 dawning1879 1838 H. Rogers Introd. Lect. Eng. Gram. & Comp. 70 Such tasteless innovations as ‘Morning-land’ (Morgen-land) for the East, and ‘hand-book’ (hand-buch) for ‘manual’. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Prophecy of Capys in Lays Anc. Rome 191 Through the sand of morning-land The camel bears the spice. 2008 L. Ma Heidegger on East-West Dialogue 91 The Evening-Land (the West) embodies in itself the Morning-land; therefore both have a world-historic sense. < as lemmas |
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