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JERUSALEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom
Synonyms:
capital of Israel; Jerusalem
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Jerusalem"):
Holy Sepulcher; Holy Sepulchre (the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection)
Temple of Jerusalem; Temple of Solomon (any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall)
Calvary; Golgotha (a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified)
Sion; Zion (originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites); above it was built a temple and later the name extended to the whole hill; finally it became a synonym for the city of Jerusalem)
Wailing Wall (a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon)
Holonyms ("Jerusalem" is a part of...):
Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)
