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promised land
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun promised land has 3 senses
- promised land(n = noun.location) canaan, holy land, palestine - an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism; Array is a kind of geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region
- promised land(n = noun.location) eden, heaven, nirvana, paradise, shangri-la - any place of complete bliss and delight and peace; Array is a kind of part, region
- promised land(n = noun.cognition) Array - the goal towards which Christians strive; Array is a kind of heaven
has parts: juda, judah, judaea, judea, samaria, philistia, jordan, jordan river
is a part of asia
THESAURUS
promised land
Agapemone, Arcadia, Beulah, Beulah Land, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Heaven, Land of Beulah, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Paradise, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion, a better place, arcadia, better world, cloudland, dreamland, dystopia, eternal home, eternity, faerie, fairyland, glory, happy hunting ground, heaven, heaven above, heavenly kingdom, high heaven, kakotopia, kingdom come, kingdom of God, kingdom of glory, kingdom of heaven, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, otherworld, paradise, presence of God, realm of light, the Promised Land, the happy land, the world above, utopia, wonderland
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