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Galilee

//ˈɡælɪliː// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.
"Last spring I organised a race for birdwatchers in Jenin, and we had 21 Palestinians participating. They came from as far as the Naqab desert and the Galilee."
2
The Sea of Galilee.
3
A village in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

Noun

1
A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
2
In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From late Middle English galilie, from Old French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea (“Galilee”). Possibly the allusion is to Galilee being an outlying region of Biblical Palestine.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English Galilee, from Old French Galilee, from Latin Galilaea, from Ancient Greek Γᾰλῑλαίᾱ (Gălīlaíā), from Hebrew גָּלִיל (galíl).

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