Dead Sea

noun

1. a salt lake between Israel and Jordan: the lowest lake in the world, more than 1,400 feet (430 meters) below sea level. Water from the lake, whose extreme salinity and high mineral content make it inhospitable to plant or animal life, has been used for health purposes since ancient times.

Dead Sea

noun

1. a lake between Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank, now 420 m (1378 ft) below sea level; originally 390 m (1285 ft): the lowest lake in the world, with no outlet and very high salinity; outline, esp at the southern end, reduced considerably in recent years. Area: originally about 950 sq km (365 sq miles); by 2003 about 625 sq km (240 sq miles)

Dead Sea

1. Salt lake on the border between Israel and Jordan .

Notes

Its shore, at approximately thirteen hundred feet below sea level, is the lowest point of dry land on Earth .

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dead Sea¹

First recorded in 1300–50

Example Sentences

Their writings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, were discovered after the war: a rich trove of sacred literature.

From The Daily Beast

The Kidron Valley wends its way from the eastern side of the Old City, through the Judean Desert, to the Dead Sea.

From The Daily Beast

Only in Israel could you see the Dead Sea Scrolls and the place where the technology on board the Mars Rover originated.

From The Daily Beast

Rand Paul's recent Israel visit included a dip in the Dead Sea.

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While some may see a cynical feint—float in the Dead Sea and watch the Jewish vote pour in!

From The Daily Beast

Here and there, though rarely, these slopes centre in a basin which is occupied by a lake or a dead sea.

From Project Gutenberg

We have already noted the fact that the basin of a dead sea becomes in course of time the seat of extensive salt deposits.

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It is, of course, a dead sea, for there is absolutely nothing living in it save a variety of shrimp of low organization.

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Grey Abbey is like the Dead Sea, of which the waters are always bitter as well as stagnant.

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It was with a shout, one day, that we welcomed a good wind, and shot clear of this dead sea of vegetable matter.

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