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Definition of Jericho

1. Noun. A village in Palestine near the north end of the Dead Sea; in the Old Testament it was the first place taken by the Israelites under Joshua as they entered the Promised Land.

Definition of Jericho

1. Noun. (informal) A place of retirement or concealment (''see'' 2 Sam. 10:5). ¹

2. Proper noun. An ancient town in the West Bank. ¹

3. Proper noun. A surname ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jericho

Literary usage of Jericho

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"If I might be so bold, I would submit that the vulgar expletive " Go to jericho ! " (a saying which probably had its birth in pre-Reformation times) was ..."

2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"His kick was tremendous ... he would send a man from jericho to June. ... jericho 1 go to (common), an exclamation of impatience— begone I In the Manor of ..."

3. The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula by Carl Ritter, William Leonard Gage (1866)
"Seetzen,1 who remained in January 1807 for nine days in jericho, is the only traveller of whom we have a record that he crossed the Jordan at the ford ..."

4. The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula by Carl Ritter, William Leonard Gage (1866)
"Seetzen,1 who remained in January 1807 for nine days in jericho, is the only traveller of whom we have a record that he crossed the Jordan at the ford ..."

5. Thanksgiving: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose by Robert Haven Schauffler (1907)
"Mrs, jericho Bob, his mother, kept hens for a living, and she expected that they would lay enough eggs in the course of time to help her son to an ..."

6. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by Sir William Smith (1888)
"... are still to lie met with round jericho; though Jose- phus (B. . ... jericho, as we fount! two aged treee In the little ra-lnp [near the channel of ll'i ..."

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