Holy Land

Holy Land

See also: Holyland

English

Proper noun

the Holy Land

1. (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) That part of the Middle East, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set.
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) The Seven Dials area of London, England.
   • 2016, Valeria Tinkler-Villani (editor), Babylon or New Jerusalem?: Perceptions of the City in Literature (page 101)

     Before returning to Dickens's accounts of these places, it is interesting to read what Charles Booth had to say of Shelton Street as he saw it in 1889, at a time when wholesale demolitions carried out for the construction of New Oxford Street in 1847 and Shaftesbury Avenue in 1885 had cut a swathe through “the Holy Land”.

Translations

that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set

Arabic: اَلْأَرْض اَلْمُقَدَّسَة‎ f (al-ʾarḍ al-muqaddasa) Armenian: Սուրբ Երկիր (Surb Erkir) Chinese: Mandarin: 聖地／圣地 (zh) (shèngdì) Czech: Svatá země f, Svatá zem f Danish: Det Hellige Land n Dutch: Heilig Land n Esperanto: Sankta Lando Finnish: Pyhä maa French: Terre Sainte (fr) f Galician: Terra Santa f German: Heiliges Land (de) n Greek: Άγιοι Τόποι (el) m pl (Ágioi Tópoi) Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקֹּדֶשׁ‎ f (éretz haqódesh) Irish: An Talamh Naofa m or f, An Tír Bheannaithe f Japanese: 聖地 (ja) (せいち, seichi) Korean: 성지(聖地) (seongji) Latin: Terra Sancta f Norman: Tèrre Sainte f Norwegian: Bokmål: Det hellige land Nynorsk: Det heilage landet Polish: Ziemia Święta (pl) f Portuguese: Terra Santa (pt) f Russian: Свята́я земля́ f (Svjatája zemljá) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Света земља f Roman: Sveta zemlja f Spanish: Tierra Santa f Vietnamese: Đất Thánh (vi)

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary