OXFORD 9000
📚 name • entry_id 50683

Promised Land

Meanings (ES + gloss)
Tierra Prometida
The area historically known as Judea, which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis.
At last, after years of patient waiting, he stood like Moses on the mountain, looking down into the Promised Land.
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📚 noun • entry_id 50684

Promised Land

Meanings (ES + gloss)
Tierra de promisión
Any place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation.
The country, too, which had been the promised land of my boyhood, did not, like most promised lands, disappoint me.
When Frances had developed her plan, she intimated, in some closing sentences, her hopes for the future. […] [A]nd what was to hinder us from going to live in England? England was…
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