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Promised land

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Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    The United States of America. Mormonism
  3. 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. 4
    A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Promised Land. alt-of
  3. 3
    the goal towards which Christians strive wordnet
  4. 4
    any place of complete bliss and delight and peace wordnet

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