Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient region of the southern Levant including the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean as well as much of present-day Lebanon and Jordan and parts of western Syria. In the Bible it is the Promised Land of the Israelites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an ancient country is southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.
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- proper noun An historic region of the
Middle East , roughly equivalent toPalestine . - proper noun biblical A grandson of
Noah . - proper noun rare A male
given name of biblical origin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
Etymologies
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Examples
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CANAAN - Even in rural Canaan, at the time home to 2,304, secrecy and worry ran high in the early days of World War II.
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On the same text Dr. Abbott says: "The term Canaan was the older title of the country, and the inhabitants were successively termed Canaanites and Phoenicians, as the inhabitants of England were successively call Brittons and Englishmen."
Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix James Walker 1914
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But, though the term Canaan would doubtless be more correct than Palestine, the latter has become so purely geographical in meaning that we can employ it without reference to history or date.
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The name "Canaan" is used to imply that they had made Judea as much the scene of abominations as it was in the days of the corrupt
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On the same text Dr. Abbott says: "The term Canaan was the older title of the country and the inhabitants were successively termed Canaanites and Phoenicians; as the inhabitants of England were successively called Britons or
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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I like thinking maybe 4000 years ago there was a woman in Canaan with hair like Rosa's and Daddy's and mine.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: LESBIANS HAVING BABIES Maggie Jochild 2007
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Flavius Worfeus – sorry to burst your bubble but New Canaan is FAR from having trailer parks (I would know, I live in Stamford, CT which is a hop, skip and a jump from New Canaan).
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They held no portion of land in Canaan (Deuteronomy 18).
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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Immediately after the death of my brother, a journey was planned to visit our grandmother Cady, who lived in Canaan, Columbia County, about twenty miles from Albany.
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The word Canaan, as we have seen, meant "the lowlands," and appears sometimes in a longer, sometimes in a shorter form.
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