Usually means: Small, personal, often religious gathering.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bethany: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bethany: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bethany: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Bethany: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bethany, bethany: Wordnik
  6. Bethany: Wiktionary
  7. Bethany: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Bethany: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Bethany: Dictionary.com
  10. Bethany (Biblical village), Bethany (Jerusalem), Bethany (band), Bethany (biblical village), Bethany (disambiguation), Bethany (given name), Bethany: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bethany: Rhymezone
  12. Bethany: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. bethany: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bethany: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bethany: Easton Bible
  2. Bethany: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Bethany, Bethany: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bethany)

noun:  (biblical) The village where Jesus stayed before going to Jerusalem and being crucified.
noun:  (biblical) The village where Lazarus, Mary and Martha lived (Bible, John 11 v. 1)
noun:  (biblical) Mary of Bethany, sometimes identified as Mary Magdalene.
noun:  A female given name from Aramaic, transferred use of the biblical place name.
noun:  Other places naned Bethany elsewhere:
noun:  A city, the county seat of Harrison County, Missouri, United States.

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