palestine — ozdic

Collocations

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ADJ.

democratic, free, good, indigenous, indisputable, possible, synonymous

A free Palestine remains the central goal of peace negotiations in the Middle East.

VERB + PALESTINE

colonize, lived, need, project, state, support, talk

The international community needs to establish a fair solution for Palestine.

PALESTINE + NOUN

anti-semitism, centuries, filastin, gilead, israel, tonight

The conflict between Palestine and Israel has dominated Middle East politics for decades.

PREP.

about, between, in, with

There have been many peace negotiations between Palestine and Israel over the past decades.

Definitions

name

1

A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.

Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.

2

A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.

3

The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.

4

A British colonial entity administering approximately the lands mentioned in definition 1.

5

The British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, of which this region was a part (the remainder being Transjordan, which covered approximately the lands of the modern Kingdom (originally Emirate) of Jordan).

noun

1

A Philistine.

The Paleſtines aſſailing the Hebrewes, are overcome by them in battell.

[…] Iſaac went to Abimelech king of the Paleſtines to Gerara.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of

canaan

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an in

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02

Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined an

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Gad, in ancient geography, a district of Transjordan Palestine, situated between Gilead and the kingdom of Bashan on the north, and that of the Amorites to the south, having the Jordan to the west, an

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The Paleſtines aſſailing the Hebrewes, are overcome by them in battell.

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[…] Iſaac went to Abimelech king of the Paleſtines to Gerara.

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The Paleſtines, by extraordinary uſury, at fifty per cent. had poſſeſſed themſelves of almoſt all the riches of the country.

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Usage Notes

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