City definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CITY, n. 1. In a general sense, a large town; a ... the word in the United States. In Great Britain, a city is said to be a town corporate that has a ... The collective body of citizens, or the inhabitants of a city; as when we say, the city voted to establish a market, and the city repealed the vote. CITY, a. Pertaining to a city; ...
... WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as ... Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of ... Webster's or ancient Hierosolyma or biblical Jebus geographical name city SW Asia NW of Dead Sea; divided 1948-67 between Jordan (old city) & Israel (new city); capital of Israel since 1950 & formerly capital of ancient kingdoms of Israel & Judah; old city under Israeli control since 1967 population 544,200 • Jerusalemite ...
... i-lon (Topographical): Babylon was the Greek name of the city written in the cuneiform script of the Babylonians, bab-ili ... god." The Hebrews called the country, as well as the city, Babhel. This name they considered came from the' root, balal ... which is of uncertain meaning) and Uru-azagga, "the holy city." Herodotus, the Greek historian, has given us a picture of Babylon in his day. He says that the city was a great square, 42 miles in circuit. Ctesias makes ... of Dungi we learn that the place was sacked. The city evidently played a very unimportant part in the political history ... the remaining history of Babylonia. The mounds covering the ancient city have frequently been explored, but systematic excavations of the ...
... definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul ... Dimash, Damascus, capital of Syria] Merriam Webster's geographical name city SW Syria, its capital population 1,451,000 Britannica Concise Largest city (pop., 1994: 1,550,000) and capital of Syria. Located ... antiquity. Believed to be the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, it has evidence of occupation from the 4th millennium BC ... finally regained its independence, with Syria, in 1946. Today the city is a flourishing trading center, with many educational and ...
... of Lake Tiberias is not fit to drink because the city sewerage has ceased to flow into it, and Christian writers ... work afterward (1884), when they published plans of the whole city with its streets churches, mosques, etc., 25 inches to the ... chief cities, the boundaries of the tribes, and especially the city of Jerusalem with its walls, gates, chief buildings, including the ... and chief streets, notably one long straight street intersecting the city and lined with colonnades. As Madeba lies near the foot ... of pottery he had seen, that the site marked a city covering 1,000 years of history, the limits of occupation ... he could date approximately some eight successive occupations of the city, each of these being mutually exclusive in certain important ...
... WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now ... Iraq Merriam Webster's or Latin Ninus geographical name ancient city capital of Assyria; ruins in Iraq on the Tigris opposite ... Jonah 3:3; 4:11) as a great and populous city, the flourishing capital of the Assyrian empire (2 Kings 19 ... is almost exclusively taken up with prophetic denunciations against this city. Its ruin and utter desolation are foretold (Nah.1:14 ... history (Matt. 12:41; Luke 11:32). This "exceeding great city" lay on the eastern or left bank of the ...
... But about 20,000 tablets and fragments found in that city came from the library of the school of the priests ... the present time is derived from the name of the city of Babylon, the capital and chief city of the land from the time of the First Dynasty ... the history of certain Babylonian temples. The walls of the city were also built of clay bricks, principally adobes. The walls ... kings in restoring and enlarging temples, shrines, walls and other city works are given. Canal digging and dredging, and such works ... of the deities worshipped by the family, and often the city. For example, it is suggestive that persons with names ...
SAMARIA, CITY OF definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia sa-ma'-ri-a ... then he purchased the hill of Samaria and built a city there, which was thenceforward the metropolis of the kingdom of Israel (1Ki 16:24). Here the hill and the city are said to have been named after Shemer, the original ... in the sense of "outlook" would fitly apply to a city in such a commanding position. The residence, it was also ... taste and good judgment in the choice he made. The city wall can be traced in almost its entire length. Recent ... in Samaria" (1Ki 20:34). Ben-hadad II besieged the city, but suffered ignominious defeat (1Ki 20:1-21; Josephus, ...
... 1) mibhtsar, is the term generally rendered "fenced" or "defenced city." In both the King James Version and the Revised Version ... we find for the most part the more formal "defenced city." It is found by itself (Isa 17:3); with `ir, "city" (1Sa 6:18; 2Ki 3:19; plural `are mibhtsar, "fenced ... Revised Version). (7) dayeq, "fort" (for the siege of a city, the wall of circumvallation cast up by the besiegers, 2Ki ... first Amorite buildings reared upon the original bluff. This lowest city is believed to go back some 2000 years BC, Professor ... thickness, are a witness to its character as a fenced city (Bliss, A Mound of Many Cities, chapter iv). 4. ...
city slicker definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing [syn: city slicker, city boy] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1924 slicker 2b Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (city slickers) If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in ...
city council definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... Webster's noun Date: 1789 the legislative body of a city Webster's 1913 Dictionary City Cit"y, a. Of or pertaining to a city. --Shak. City council. See under Council. City court, The municipal court of a city. [U. S.] ...
... of distinction ; throne 2. a. a military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender b. a ... everything possible to lift the siege... The journalists found a city virtually under siege. N-COUNT: also under N see also ... Preliminaries to Siege 4. Siege Operations: Attack (1) Investment of City (2) Line of Circumvallation (3) Mound, or Earthworks (4) Battering ... siege of Rabbath-Ammon Joab seems to have deprived the city of its water-supply and rendered it untenable (2Sa 11 ... was an instruction of the Deuteronomic Law that before a city was invested for a long siege, it should be summoned ... the siege is to be proceeded with, and if the city be captured, all the male population is to be ...
city hall definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... noun Date: 1675 1. the chief administrative building of a city 2. a. a municipal government b. city officialdom or bureaucracy < you can't fight city hall > Collin's Cobuild Dictionary also City Hall(city halls) The city hall is the building which a ...
... WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an ancient Greek city on the western shore of Asia Minor in what is ... Ephesus, Council of Ephesus] Merriam Webster's geographical name ancient city W Asia Minor in Ionia near Aegean coast; site SSE ... Izmir • Ephesian adjective or noun Britannica Concise Ancient Ionian Greek city; its ruins lie near the modern village of Selcuk in ... of the Epistle to the Ephesians. The Goths destroyed the city and temple in AD 262; neither ever recovered. There are ... 15:32.) Many Jews took up their residence in this city, and here the seeds of the gospel were sown immediately ... Greece to Syria (18:18-21), he first visited this city. He remained, however, for only a short time, as ...
... 1828 Dictionary METROP'OLIS, n. [L. from Gr. mother, and city. It has no plural.] Literally, the mother-city, that is, the chief city or capital of a kingdom, state or country, as Paris ... not the seats of the respective governments. Yet New York city, in the state of that name, and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania ... include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" [syn: city, metropolis, urban center] 2: people living in a large ...