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Palestinian

[ pal-uh-stin-ee-uhn ]

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
  2. Also called Palestinian Arab. an Arab formerly living in Palestine who advocates the establishment of an Arab homeland there.


adjective

  1. of or relating to Palestine or Palestinians.
  2. of or relating to Palestinian Arabs:

    Palestinian guerrillas.

Palestinian

/ ˌpælɪˈstɪnɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Palestine


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of the former British mandate, or their descendants, esp such Arabs now living in the Palestinian Administered Territories, Jordan, Lebanon, or Israel, or as refugees from Israeli-occupied territory

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Example Sentences

The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.

I know, some of you will now react by saying that the Netanyahu government supports a Palestinian state.

And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.

The reality is that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is likely going to be with us for the foreseeable future.

Soon after Abu Ein died, the Palestinian Authority announced three days of mourning.

We are introduced successively to the Palestinian, the Assimilator, and the Neither-here-nor-there.

They lived in comparative quietude; although Herodotus knows the Palestinian coast he does not mention the Jews.

Through them the experience of the dispersion was brought to bear upon the Palestinian Jews.

Here, far more than on Palestinian soil, was built the enduring edifice of rabbinism.

We keep close to the meaning of Scripture if we set the Annunciation in a room in a cottage of a Palestinian working man.

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