Jaffa

[jaf-uh, jah-fuh, yah-fah]

noun

1. a former seaport in W Israel, part of Tel Aviv-Jaffa since 1950: ancient Biblical town.

Jaffa

/ ˈdʒɑː-, ˈdʒæfə /

noun

1. Biblical name: Joppa. Hebrew name: Yafo. a port in W Israel, on the Mediterranean: incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950; an old Canaanite city

2. a large variety of orange, having a thick skin

Example Sentences

More people were reported killed on Saturday afternoon after an air strike on the Tuffah neighbourhood near Jaffa School, where hundreds of displaced Gazans were sheltering.

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Hannah Lyons-Singer, 43, arrived in Jaffa last Tuesday to care for her father, after he was hospitalised while on holiday in Israel with her mother.

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A convoy of vehicles then made its way north towards the Abu Kabir forensic institute, in Jaffa, where formal identification of the bodies is taking place.

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Mr Hill described the computer as the size and shape of "a Jaffa Cake".

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But the Wyre Forest district councillor, from Kidderminster, said she held no ill will against Jaffa, the cat which inflicted the original injury.

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