English Explanatory Dictionary

galilee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
name
  1. A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.
  2. The Sea of Galilee.
  3. A village in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

Pronunciation

/ˈɡælɪliː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Galilee.wav

Word forms

galilee galilees

Etymology

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.

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