English
Canaan
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈkeɪnən/
Proper noun
  1. A historic region in Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine.
  2. A grandson of Noah.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Genesis 10:15-18 ↗:
      :
      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.
  3. (rare) A male given name of biblical origin.
  4. The name of multiple places in North America named after the historic region, including:
    1. A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
Translations Translations
  • Russian: Ханаан


This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004
Offline English dictionary