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Holy City

–noun (sometimes lowercase)
1. a city regarded as particularly sacred by the adherents of a religious faith, as Jerusalem by Jews and Christians, Mecca and Medina by Muslims, and Varanasi by Hindus.
2. heaven.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME
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