Definition of Golan

1. Noun. A fortified hilly area between southern Lebanon and southern Syria. "Artillery on the Golan Heights can dominate a large area of Israel"


Definition of Golan

1. Proper noun. An ancient city in Syria ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Golan

Goggia
Goggia's sign
Goggin
Gogh
Gogol
Gogolesque
Gogolian
Goguryeo
Goidel
Goidelic
Goidels
Goiás
Goiânia
Gojri
Gola
Golan (current term)
Golan Heights
Golconda
Gold Coast
Golda Meir
Goldberg
Goldblatt's clamp
Goldblatt hypertension
Goldblatt kidney
Goldblatt phenomenon
Golden Age
Golden Arches
Golden Delicious
Golden Fleece
Golden Gate

Literary usage of Golan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... xv, 23; Acts, xxvii, 7), a city in Caria. Gob (II Kings, xxi, 18, 19). Unknown. Perhaps the text is corrupt. Golan. ..."

2. Syria and the Middle East Peace Process by Alasdair Drysdale, Raymond A. Hinnebusch (1991)
"The previous month, Prime Minister Shamir dismissed reports that Israel might agree to the demilitarization of the Golan Heights, saying they had "no basis ..."

3. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1878)
"... Golan, city of Bashan, II. 359, 2 b. GOLCONDA, city of India, VIII. 71. Tomba of the kings of, 2 a (ill.). Kingdom of, 1 c ; IX. 201, 1 c. ..."

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