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Definition of Promised Land
1. Noun. An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism.
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Terms within: Juda, Judah, Judaea, Judea, Samaria, Philistia, Jordan, Jordan River
Group relationships: Asia
Geographical relationships: Chebab
Derivative terms: Palestinian
2. Noun. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
Generic synonyms: Part, Region
Derivative terms: Paradisal, Paradisiacal
3. Noun. The goal towards which Christians strive.
Definition of Promised Land
1. Proper noun. (Judaism Christianity) The area historically known as Judea, which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic sometimes lower case) Any place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation. ¹
3. Noun. (idiomatic sometimes lower case) Heaven or the afterlife. ¹
4. Noun. (alternative form of Promised Land) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Promised Land
Literary usage of Promised Land
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"COUNTESS TOINETTE SETS OUT FOR "THE Promised Land" From i Children of the World
... The <promised land' has long allured me. I should have set out for it ..."
2. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1881)
"Being separated from the slave border by her river only, Ohio had long been the
promised land of fugitives, and the battle-ground for many recaptured ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... his residence at Tiberias," and the neighbouring cities of Palestine were
filled with the remains of a people who fondly adhered to the promised land. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"Aérer »n the world will they reach the promised land of equal rights, except
through a red sea of blood. Let Great Britain declare war, and I fervently hope ..."
5. The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, Boaz Cohen (1913)
"... THE SERVANT OF MOSES 3 ENTERING THE Promised Land 4 CONQUEST OF THE LAND 7
THE SUN OBEYS JOSHUA WAR WITH THE ARMENIANS ALLOTMENT OF THE LAND ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"... and thence over Mount Gilead into the Promised Land, by the road taken by the
Patriarch Jacob hi his flight from his father-in-law Laban. ..."
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