Associations to the word «Antioch»

Wiktionary

ANTIOCH, proper noun. The name of a number of cities founded by kings of the Seleucid dynasty, the most famous being "Antioch on the Orontes" in ancient Syria (modern day Antakya in south-eastern Turkey)
ANTIOCH, proper noun. A city in California.
ANTIOCH, proper noun. A village in Illinois.
ANTIOCH, proper noun. A ghost town in Nebraska.
ANTIOCH, proper noun. A village in Ohio.

Dictionary definition

ANTIOCH, noun. A town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats