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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948;

2. an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism;
[syn: Palestine, Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Palestine
    n 1: a former British mandate on the east coast of the
         Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948
    2: an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of
       the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity
       and Islam and Judaism [syn: Palestine, Canaan, Holy
       Land, Promised Land]