英语词汇“Salem”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

Salem

释义

Salem|ˈseɪləm|
[Name of a place in Gen. xiv. 18 (Heb. Shālēm), understood to be another name for Jerusalem and to mean ‘peace’ (Heb. shālōm).]
Occasionally (chiefly in the nineteenth century) adopted by Methodists, Baptists, Independents, etc., as the name of a particular chapel or meeting-house. Hence used as a synonym for ‘nonconformist chapel’. Cf. bethel 2, Ebenezer 2, Zion.
1857Geo. Eliot in Blackw. Mag. July 62/1 The Independent chapel, known as Salem, stood red and conspicuous in a broad street.1880Trollope Duke's Children III. iii. 27 Every Salem and Zion and Ebenezer in his large parish would be closed.1935A. Cruse Victorians & their Bks. iv. 66 Most Churchmen really did look down upon the Dissenters... The congregations that gathered in the Bethels and Ebenezers and Salems..were, for the most part, made up of the less educated and less polished classes.1963W. H. Boore Valley & Shadow ix. 43 Salem, Bryncoed, was square and dumpy... The place was private, too—just the Lord and His elect.1970Guardian 1 Aug. 9/8 The grey chapels called Salem and Zion.

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