dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/zio_MW.json

{
  "Zion":{
    "antonyms":[
      "Gehenna",
      "hell",
      "Pandemonium",
      "perdition"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": heaven":[],
      ": the Jewish homeland that is symbolic of Judaism or of Jewish national aspiration":[],
      ": the Jewish people : israel":[],
      ": the ideal nation or society envisaged by Judaism":[],
      ": utopia":[],
      "city in northeastern Illinois north of Waukegan population 24,413":[],
      "hill in eastern Jerusalem, Israel":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "found the path to Zion by doing penance for the wayward ways of her youth",
      "Robert Owen's New Harmony, Indiana, was but one of many attempts to establish an American Zion ."
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English Sion , from Old English, citadel in Palestine which was the nucleus of Jerusalem, from Late Latin, from Greek Sei\u014dn , from Hebrew \u1e62\u012by\u014dn":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8z\u012b-\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "above",
      "bliss",
      "elysian fields",
      "Elysium",
      "empyrean",
      "heaven",
      "kingdom come",
      "New Jerusalem",
      "paradise",
      "sky"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214858",
    "type":[
      "geographical name",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "Zion National Park":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "of the Virgin River":[
        "Zion Canyon"
      ],
      "reservation in southwestern Utah centering around":[
        "Zion Canyon"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8z\u012b-\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135900",
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ]
  },
  "Zioncheck":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a card game of the contract rummy group":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably from Zion (sense 3) + check":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111959",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "Zionism":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1890, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8z\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccni-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-115430",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adjective or noun",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "Zionite":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a citizen of Zion : one of the chosen people of God":[],
      ": a follower of John Alexander Dowie (1848\u20131907) founder of Zion City, Illinois and of the Christian Catholic Church":[],
      ": a person who favors Zionism : zionist":[],
      ": ronsdorfer":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Zion (Palestine) + English -ite":"Noun",
      "Zion (city of God) + English -ite":"Noun",
      "Zion City (now Zion, Illinois), religious community of the Christian Catholic Church + English -ite":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"",
      "\u02c8z\u012b\u0259\u02ccn\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083550",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}