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Ark

//ɑɹk// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The boat built by the Biblical Noah to carry himself and the animals of the planet during the Flood.
  2. 2
    The chest carried by the Hebrews containing the stone tablets carved with the Ten Commandments.
Noun
  1. 1
    A large box with a flat lid.
  2. 2
    a boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the flood wordnet
  3. 3
    Noah's ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge. Judaism

    "In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside."

  4. 4
    Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge.

    "the Ark of Bukhara"

  5. 5
    The body as a vessel. figuratively

    "Like her I go; I cannot stay; ⁠I leave this mortal ark behind, A weight of nerves without a mind, And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]"

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  1. 6
    A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.

    "Some seventy or seventy-five arks were permanently located on McLeod's Lake and between 110 and 125 people lived in them."

  2. 7
    The Ark of the Covenant. Judaism
  3. 8
    A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept. Judaism

Etymology

From Middle English arke, from Old English earc, ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“I enclose”).

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