SAMARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Samaria mean? 

• SAMARIA (noun)
  The noun SAMARIA has 1 sense:

1. an ancient city in central Palestine founded in the 9th century BC as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel; the site is in present-day northwestern Jordan

  Familiarity information: SAMARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAMARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient city in central Palestine founded in the 9th century BC as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel; the site is in present-day northwestern Jordan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Samaria" is a part of...):

Canaan; Holy Land; Palestine; Promised Land (an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism)