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GREEN LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Green Line mean? 

GREEN LINE (noun)
  The noun GREEN LINE has 1 sense:

1. the border marking the boundaries of the land that Israel won in its 1948 war of independenceplay

  Familiarity information: GREEN LINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GREEN LINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The border marking the boundaries of the land that Israel won in its 1948 war of independence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

border; borderline; boundary line; delimitation; mete (a line that indicates a boundary)


 Context examples 


A thin green line of vegetation fringed the summit of the ruddy cliff.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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