Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The East.
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- noun poetic, dated The
Orient , theEast .
Etymologies
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From morning + land, translating German Morgenland, Luther's translation of Ancient Greek ἀυατολή ("(sun-)rising").
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Examples
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I myself, good reader, have dwelt on its scenes longer, because, looking back on it from the extreme end of life, it seems to my weary eyes so fresh and beautiful; the dew of the morning-land lies on it, – that dew which no coming day will restore.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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Greek is the morning-land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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( 'And that is the elephant: it comes from far, from a foreign land -- from the _morning-land_!') -- that is, the East!
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 Various 1836
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