Zion
/ˈzʌɪən
/(also Sion)
noun
1The hill of Jerusalem on which the city of David was built.
1.1Jerusalem.
1.2The Jewish people or religion.A major personality among the Hovevi Zion was Judah Leob Pinsker.
2(In Christian thought) the heavenly city or kingdom of heaven.The theme then, is the fear of freedom - that maybe Nirvana / Mecca / Heaven / Zion isn't that great....
- Twenty-three years after Marley went home to Zion, he still is heralded by many as a voice for the sufferers, for the poor, for those maligned by the majority.
- It was the dull glazed look that tells you being a cashier is not a stepping stone across the river of life to Zion on the other shore; she will be a cashier in one form or another forever.
2.1The Christian Church.In the New Testament, Zion represents the Church.
3A land of future promise or return from exile.Seen this way, the return to Zion represents the completion of the promise made to Abraham....
- Protestant America in the nineteenth century viewed this as a ‘Christian nation,’ even ‘God's true Zion.’
- With an eye for detail and a metaphorical imagination, Chisholm explores what it means to be ‘footloose’ in a dream that pulled so many dreamers toward the American Zion.
3.1(Among Jews) Israel.
3.2(Among Rastafarians) Africa.
Origin
Old English, from ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Hebrew ṣīyōn.
Rhymes
- perpensity
- perpet
- ion channel
- ion chromatography
- ion drive
- ionene
- ion engine
- Ionesco, Eugène
- ion etching
- ion exchange
- ion-exchange chromatography
- ion-exchanged
- ion-exchange polymer
- ion exchanger
- ion-exchange resin
- ion-exchanging
- ion gage
- ion gauge
- ion gun
- Ionia
- Ionian
- Ionian Islands
- Ionian mode
- Ionian Sea
- ionic