Usually means: Birthplace of Jesus, historical city.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Bethlehem:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bethlehem: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bethlehem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bethlehem: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Bethlehem: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bethlehem: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bethlehem, bethlehem: Wordnik
  7. Bethlehem: Wiktionary
  8. Bethlehem: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Bethlehem: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Bethlehem: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bethlehem: Dictionary.com
  12. Bethlehem (Brian McKnight album), Bethlehem (German band), Bethlehem (PA), Bethlehem (SEPTA station), Bethlehem (band), Bethlehem (disambiguation), Bethlehem (film), Bethlehem (given name), Bethlehem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bethlehem: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bethlehem: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Bethlehem: Rhymezone
  16. Bethlehem: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bethlehem: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. bethlehem: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bethlehem: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Bethlehem: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. bethlehem: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Bethlehem: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bethlehem: Easton Bible
  2. Bethlehem: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Bethlehem: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Bethlehem, Bethlehem: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bethlehems as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bethlehem)

noun:  A city in the West Bank, Palestine, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.
noun:  A number of other places around the world:
noun:  A hamlet near Rottum, Groningen province, Netherlands.
noun:  A settlement just west of Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
noun:  A town in Free State province, South Africa.
noun:  A quarter of Bümpliz-Oberbottigen, city of Bern, Switzerland.
noun:  A small village in Llangadog community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN6825).
noun:  A hamlet in Rudbaxton community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9820).
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Holmes County, Florida.
noun:  A town in Barrow County, Georgia.
noun:  A township and unincorporated community therein, in Clark County, Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Henry County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Winn Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Caroline County, Maryland.
noun:  A census-designated place in Marshall County, Mississippi.
noun:  A town and census-designated place therein, in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
noun:  A town in Albany County, New York.
noun:  A census-designated place in Alexander County, North Carolina.
noun:  A ghost town in Marion County, Ohio.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Richland County, Ohio.
noun:  A city in Northampton County and Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Tennessee.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Harrison County, West Virginia.
noun:  A village in Ohio County, West Virginia.
noun:  A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Bethlehem Township
noun:  (obsolete) A lunatic asylum.
noun:  (architecture) In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the Eucharist is made.

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