Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of central Syria northeast of Damascus. Said to have been built by Solomon, it prospered under the Romans until it was partially destroyed by the emperor Aurelian after a people's revolt in AD 273.
- A city of western New York southeast of Rochester on the Erie Canal. Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church here in 1830.
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- proper noun historical an ancient
Aramaic oasis-city inSyria , on the site of present-day Tadmor
Etymologies
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Examples
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For an account of the Palmyra, and its cultivation in the peninsula of Jaffna, see FERGUSON'S monograph on the _Palmyra Palm of Ceylon_, Colombo, 1850.]
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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While I was looking for Georg Niemann's images of Split ca. 1907 I happened across a reference to Robert Wood's The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tadmor, in the desert (London, 1753), and it actually made me sit up and clap my hands, because Palmyra is one of my favorite places, and to find such a plethora of wonderful images is like getting the best kind of birthday presents.
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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While I was looking for Georg Niemann's images of Split ca. 1907 I happened across a reference to Robert Wood's The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tadmor, in the desert (London, 1753), and it actually made me sit up and clap my hands, because Palmyra is one of my favorite places, and to find such a plethora of wonderful images is like getting the best kind of birthday presents.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra Heather McDougal 2008
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NEAR the ruins of Palmyra is a solitary cavern, so much dreaded by the Syrians, that they denominated it the Cavern
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Odenathus was of a noble family in Palmyra and according to
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Again, I doubt I would have that conversation in Palmyra.
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Again, I doubt I would have that conversation in Palmyra.
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Cities in the wilderness, like Tadmor, alias Palmyra — are they not?
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"New Carthage," a city of seven houses, nearly opposite another of equal pride called Palmyra, and some four miles above the head of Hurricane
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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Cities in the wilderness, like Tadmor, alias Palmyra -- are they not?
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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