Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Philistia | Yes | No | No | No |
Palestine | Yes | No | No | No |
Philistia (noun) | Palestine (noun) |
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an ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine that was strategically located on a trade route between Syria and Egypt; important in biblical times | an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism |
a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948 | |
state combining the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and currently under Israeli occupation |