morning-land
UK/ˈmɔː.nɪŋ.land/US/ˈmɔɹ.nɪŋ.lænd/
morning-land noun: the Orient; the East.
Noun
morning-land
- The Orient; the East.
- Where old Nile is everflowing, / And the Sphynx with heavy lids / Sits by ruins grim and sombre — / Onward to the Pyramids. […] Far in Morning Land I wandered / Where the summers never cease, / And Romance's golden waters / Ever run and murmur peace.1852, C. P. Cranch, “The Palm Tree of Capri”, in Dwight's Journal of Music, page 26
- Still the old leaven remains behind: here, as elsewhere in the “Morning-land,” you cannot hold your own without employing the voie de fait.1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 18
Examples of morning-land in a sentence
- In this morning-land there is no room for worldly thoughts.1931, Lowell Thomas, India, Land of the Black Pagoda, page 213:
- The Evening-Land (the West) embodies in itself the Morning-land; therefore both have a world-historic sense.2007, Lin Ma, Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event, page 91:
Forms of morning-land
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Origin of morning-land
From morning + land, translating German Morgenland, Luther's translation of Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “(sun-)rising”).
Questions about morning-land
- What does morning-land mean?
- Morning-land means the Orient; the East.
- How do you use morning-land in a sentence?
- In this morning-land there is no room for worldly thoughts.
- What part of speech is morning-land?
- Morning-land is a noun.
- How do you pronounce morning-land?
- Morning-land is pronounced /ˈmɔː.nɪŋ.land/ (UK).
Words near morning-land in the dictionary
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