Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In the Bible, the land promised by God to Abraham's descendants, identified with the land of Canaan.
- noun A longed-for place or situation where satisfaction and happiness will be achieved.
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- proper noun Judaism, Christianity The area historically known as
Judea , which was promised to theIsraelites byGod according to oral tradition recorded in theBook of Genesis . - proper noun Mormonism
America . - noun idiomatic Any place to which one
eagerly seeks to go and which oneexpects to greatlyimprove one's situation. - noun idiomatic
Heaven or theafterlife .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- noun the goal towards which Christians strive
- 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
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Examples
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Obama's preferred image is of the very partisan but magically still post-partisan unifier, he who will lead us to the Better Way and the Promised Land, which strangely enough will look just like a lefty Dem's version of Paradise.
"He isn't seeking to perfect Swift-boating, he's seeking to end it." Ann Althouse 2008
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Judeo-Islamo-Christian tradition has no problem with killing and stealing from strangers, beginning with the Promised Land and continuing right up to the invasion of Iraq.
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The streets of the Promised Land flowed not with milk and honey but with ordure, and the glories of Askalon and Asdod were faded indeed.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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The streets of the Promised Land flowed not with milk and honey but with ordure, and the glories of Askalon and Asdod were faded indeed.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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However, the unanimous chilliness with which _The Promised Land_ was received must have effectually disillusioned him.
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Moses began the emancipation of the Jews, but didn't take Israel to the Promised Land after all.
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913
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Antin, who was brought from a Russian ghetto at the age of thirteen, gave us in _The Promised Land_ a most impressive interpretation of
A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Edward William Bok 1896
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Beyond it stretched the Promised Land peopled with the lost who soon would be the found.
Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Yea, it is to Israel the Promised Land, till _every_ prophecy be fulfilled; till the King come to Zion, _lowly and riding on an ass_ (Zech.ix. 9); till -- oh, most mysterious word!
Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History 1821-1893 A. L. O. E. 1857
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Should results go against them, they could be ten points away from the Promised Land with six games remaining.
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