Olives

American

[ol-ivz] / ˈɒl ɪvz /

Also Olivet

noun

Mount of, a small ridge E of Jerusalem, in what is now Jordan. Highest point, 2,737 feet (834m).

Olives British

/ ˈɒlɪvz /

noun

a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one

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