Salt Sea

English

Etymology

Calque of Hebrew ים המלח (Yam HaMelakh), principally from its appearance in the Bible.

Proper noun

the Salt Sea

1. (archaic) Synonym of Dead Sea.
   • 1983 August 20, Charley Shively, “Sodom, Nagasaki and the Final Conflagration”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 7:

     Archaeologists suggest that the Plain of Sodom is now submerged under the southern tongue of the Salt Sea.

Anagrams

• Estalas, atlases, sea salt, seasalt