HyperDic: jordan

English > 2 senses of the word *Jordan*:
NOUN	object	Jordan, Jordan River	a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea
NOUN	location	Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan	an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea

Jordan > pronunciation
Sounds	jhao'rdahn
Rhymes	Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn...

English > *Jordan*: 2 senses > noun 1, object
Meaning	A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan.
Synonym	Jordan River
Instance of	river	A large natural stream of water (larger / larger than a creek)
Part of	Palestine, Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land	An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea
Spanish	Jordania, Jordán
Catalan	Jordà, Jordània, Jordan

English > *Jordan*: 2 senses > noun 2, location
Meaning	An Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea.
Synonym	Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Instance of	Asian country, Asian nation	Any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent
Member of	Arab League	An international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural / cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation
Members	Jordanian	A native or inhabitant of Jordan
Part of	Asia	The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population
Part of	Middle East, Mideast, Near East	The area around the eastern Mediterranean
Parts	Al Aqabah, Aqaba, Akaba	Jordan's port
	Amman, capital of Jordan	The capital and largest city of Jordan
	Az Zarqa, Zarqa	city in northwestern Jordan
	Dead Sea	A saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan
	Syrian Desert	A desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia
Region of	Black September Movement	A former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich killed 11 Israeli athletes
Region of	al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa	A Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state
Spanish	Jordania, Reino Hachemita de Jordania
Catalan	Jordània, Regne Haiximita de Jordània
Adjectives	Jordanian	of or relating to or characteristic of Jordan or its people

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