different between mountainous vs galilee

mountainous

English

Etymology

From mountain +? -ous after Middle French montagneux, itself from montaigne or Late Latin mont?ni?sus, in turn from Latin mont?nus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ma?nt?n?s/

Adjective

mountainous (comparative more mountainous, superlative most mountainous)

  1. Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky.
  2. Resembling a mountain, especially in size; huge; towering.
  3. (figuratively, of a problem or task) Very difficult.
  4. (obsolete) Inhabiting mountains; hence, barbarous.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:gigantic

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See also

  • hilly

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galilee

English

Etymology

From late Middle English galilie, from Old French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea (Galilee). Possibly the allusion is to Galilee being an outlying region of Biblical Palestine.

Noun

galilee (plural galilees)

  1. (architecture) A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
  2. In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry.

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “galilee”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Italian

Noun

galilee

  1. plural of galilea

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