Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ARK
ARK
Definitions of ARK
- A large box with a flat lid.
- A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
- (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Noah's ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
- (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
- (Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.
- (biblical) The boat built by the Biblical Noah to carry himself and the animals of the planet during the Flood.
- (biblical) The chest carried by the Hebrews containing the stone tablets carved with the Ten Commandments.
- (figuratively) The body as a vessel.
- Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge. (e.g., the Ark of Bukhara )
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using ARK in a Sentence
- The Ark, an unfinished sculpture in the form of a functional ship by Kea Tawana in Newark, New Jersey, US.
- The Bastarnae, Bastarni or Basternae, also known as the Peuci or Peucini, were an ancient people who are known from Greek and Roman records to have inhabited areas north and east of the Carpathian mountains between about 300 BC and about 300 AD, stretching in an ark from the sources of the Vistula in present day Poland and Slovakia, to the Lower Danube, and including all or most of present day Moldava.
- The ark, containing the three-month-old baby Moses, was placed in reeds by the river bank (presumably the Nile) to protect him from the Egyptian mandate to drown every male Hebrew child, and discovered there by Pharaoh's daughter.
- A generation ship, generation starship or world ship, is a hypothetical type of interstellar ark starship that travels at sub-light speed.
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