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Meanings of promised land in English

Portuguese
alturas
Catalan
terra promesa
Spanish
cielo

Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.

alturas
Portuguese
canaã
Catalan
canaan
Spanish
tierra santa

An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism.

canaã
Usage of promised land in English
1
Over the following 10 months Ranieri led them to the promised land.
The Guardian
2
This is not the promised land of 21st century work and distraction.
Wired
3
The sex industry held itself up as the promised land of feminism.
The Guardian
4
Hopefully that leads everybody to the ultimate promised land of Premiership survival.
The Guardian
5
A path was briefly visible to the promised land of orderly Brexit.
The Guardian
6
For the present Abraham was but a stranger in his promised land.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
7
We were promised land; we expected you had obtained it for us.
The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration
8
They cross the large waters into the promised land, and so forth.
The Book of Mormon / An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, U...
9
How about moving up the chain into the promised land of R&D?
The Irish Times
10
But he looked upon it as Moses looked upon the promised land.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
11
They fancied that they were going at once into the promised land.
The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons
12
Hundreds of farmer delegates were given free trips through the promised land.
The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor
13
Cousin Brin, I feel as if I had reached the promised land.
Mistress Anne
14
I think, therefore, that they ought to receive the promised land bounty.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
15
You know what Joyce wrote about her calling this her promised land.
The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
16
They saw that familiar green orb: a thing of dreams, the promised land.
Children of Time
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