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