jordan river

1. 1.

   a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan

   SynonymsJordan

   Broaderriver

   Part ofPalestine

Questions about jordan river

What does jordan river mean?

jordan river means "a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan".

What is another word for jordan river?

Close synonyms include Jordan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jordan river a common word?

jordan river is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.