Western Wall
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- proper noun
:
Muro de las Lamentaciones
- After the Six-Day War, Israeli archaeologists discovered a buried passageway near the Western Wall.
- the front of the Western Wall
He went to Israel without me and he went to to the Western Wall, right.
- He went to Israel without me and he went to to the Western Wall, right.
Examples
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Hoffman was at the Western Wall with a group of about 200.
Blog text (22) -
Your appeal will be carried to the Western Wall by our little girls and placed by them there between the sacred stones.
Fiction book (1991) -
Please leave the area of the Western Wall.
Academic text (1991) -
Many tourists and religious groups visit the Western Wall each day.
Academic text (2011) -
Tens of thousands flock to the Western Wall for blessings.
Blog text (2) -
Tens of thousands of Jews gathered at the Western Wall for the priestly blessings: "Birkat Kohanim."
Blog text (2) -
Many tourists and religious groups visit the Western Wall each day.
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On Thursday, 50,000 worshippers gathered at Jerusalem's Western Wall to pray for the young man's safety.
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Three women were arrested while praying at the Western Wall in the last 24 hours.
Synonyms
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A holy stone wall in Jerusalem where Jewish people pray and put written prayers
Surface Forms
Morphology
A learner who knows 'western' and 'wall' can infer the literal sense—a wall located on the west side—but cannot derive the specific historic and religious referent (the sacred remnant of the Second Temple) or its cultural significance from the parts alone. Because the compositional location sense is clear but the full encyclopedic/ceremonial meaning requires prior cultural knowledge, the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Western Wall gets its name from being the wall on the 'western' side of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem; it is the last wall left from that Temple. People come to pray, leave notes in its cracks and remember and mourn the past, so the name points to a real, very old place of prayer and sorrow.