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  • proper noun A city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
  • proper noun The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
  • proper noun The center of Tel Aviv-Yafo.

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  • noun the largest city and financial center of Israel; located in western Israel on the Mediterranean

Etymologies

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From Hebrew תֵּל־אָבִיב (Tel Aviv), from the title of Nahum Sokolow's translation of Theodor Herzl's Altneuland ("The Old New Land"). From תֵּל (tel, "hill formed by ancient ruins"), symbolizing the Old, and אָבִיב (aviv, "Spring"), symbolizing the New.

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