<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Also called Holy Land: Biblical name Canaan.</li><li>An ancient country in southwest Asia, on the east coast of the Mediterranean.</li><li>A disputed region made up of parts of an ancient country in southwest Asia, especially the Gaza Strip and the West Bank: a British mandate from 1923 to 1948; divided between Israel, Jordan, and Egypt in 1948; Jordanian and Egyptian parts occupied by Israel in 1967, with limited Palestinian self-administration beginning in 1994.</li><li>A city in eastern Texas.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>