Abilene : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Abilene	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Abilene
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Abilene n a city in central Texas a town in central Kansas to the west of Topeka; home of Dwight D. Eisenhower
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Abilene, KS (city, FIPS 125) Location: 38.91996 N, 97.22196 W Population (1990): 6242 (2856 housing units) Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67410 Abilene, TX (city, FIPS 1000) Location: 32.45450 N, 99.73897 W Population (1990): 106654 (44436 housing units) Area: 267.0 sq km (land), 14.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79601, 79602, 79603, 79605, 79606
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Abilene a plain, a district lying on the east slope of the Anti-Lebanon range; so called from its chief town, Abila (Luke 3:1), which stood in the Suk Wady Barada, between Heliopolis (Baalbec) and Damascus, 38 miles from the former and 18 from the latter. Lysanias was governor or tetrarch of this province.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Abilene, the father of mourning