Chanaan

Proper noun

Canaan

1. A historic region of the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine/Israel.
   • Ancient combs were made from wood, bone and ivory, but the latter would have been expensive, imported luxuries. There were no elephants in Canaan at the time.2022 November 9, Ian Sample, “Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2024
2. A grandson of Noah.
   • And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 10:15-18
3. (rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
4. A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
5. A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
6. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Canaan Township.