Bethlehem: Definition and part of speech

Bethlehem

  1. n. In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made.
  2. n. A hospital for lunatics; — corrupted into bedlam.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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