Promised Land

名词 n. 专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation. idiomatic,lowercase,sometimes
    — The country, too, which had been the promised land of my boyhood, did not, like most promised lands, disappoint me.
专有名词
  1. The area historically known as Judea, which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis. Judaism
    — At last, after years of patient waiting, he stood like Moses on the mountain, looking down into the Promised Land.
  2. The United States of America. Mormonism
  3. Heaven or the afterlife. idiomatic,lowercase,sometimes
    — "Be good, my boy, and God will make you great." Then she said she was cold, and . . . murmured: "I'll away, I'll away to the Promised Land—to the Promised Land. […] It is cold—so cold—God keep my boy!"
  4. A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.

词形变化

the Promised Land canonical promised land alternative Promised Lands plural promised land alternative
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