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Tel Aviv

proper noun

  1. city in Israel
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌtɛl.əˈvɪv/ / /ˌtɛl.əˈviːv/

name

Etymology: From Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív), from the title of Nahum Sokolow's translation of Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (“The Old New Land”). From תֵּל (tél, “hill formed by ancient ruins”), symbolizing the Old, and אָבִיב ('avív, “spring”), symbolizing the New.

  1. A city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.

    “Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides.”

  2. A district in Israel.
  3. The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
  4. The center of Tel Aviv-Yafo.