Word.ws English Dictionary

Bethlehems

Bethlehems is the plural of Bethlehem.

Meaning of Bethlehem

Noun

Bethlehem (plural Bethlehems)

  1. (obsolete) A lunatic asylum.
  2. In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the Eucharist is made.
    • […] to the Hebrew and Arabic word “korban” as now used in the Abyssinian Church to denote the sacramental bread specially prepared in the “Bethlehem,” or “House of Bread.”1869, John Baron, Anglosaxon witness on four alleged requisites for holy communion

See all 27 meanings of Bethlehem

Questions about Bethlehems

What is Bethlehems the plural of?
Bethlehems is the plural of Bethlehem.

Words near Bethlehems in the dictionary

  1. Bethlehem lungwort
  2. Bethlehem sage
  3. Bethlehemic
  4. Bethlehemite
  5. Bethlehemites
  6. Bethlehems
  7. Bethlemite
  8. Bethlemites
  9. Bethnal Green
  10. bethonged
  11. bethorned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Bethlehems (page history and authors); Bethlehem (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Bethlehems.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bethlehems. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.