galilee

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n. 加利利（巴勒斯坦北部一多山地区）；西端入口处的门廊（中古英国教堂）

词形变化

galilees 复数 galilees

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.

    建筑
  2. 2.

    In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry.

相关短语

Sea of Galilee 加利利海

词源

From late Middle English galilie, from Old French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea (“Galilee”). Possibly the allusion is to Galilee being an outlying region of Biblical Palestine.

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