Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An area proposed by the Mormons in 1849 as an independent state or a state of the Union. Deseret would have included much of the southwest United States, with a capital at Salt Lake City. Congress refused to recognize the provisional state and created the Utah Territory in 1850.
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- proper noun A state, proposed in 1849 and never recognized, which would have included most of
Utah and Nevada and parts of other states. - proper noun this sense?) Mormon name for
honeybee .
Etymologies
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The Deseret is a word taken from the Mormon’s early “Deseret Alphabet” and the word means “Honeybee”.
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While this was soon scaled down to the Utah territory by the United states government, the name Deseret was retained in the form of a newspaper (the Deseret Times) and the symbol on the state's highways (the beehive).
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Resettled in Utah after an epic 1,400-mile odyssey from the Midwest, the Mormons and their indomitable leader, Brigham Young, had built a new Zion, initially called Deseret, on the alkali flats around the Great Salt Lake.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Resettled in Utah after an epic 1,400-mile odyssey from the Midwest, the Mormons and their indomitable leader, Brigham Young, had built a new Zion, initially called Deseret, on the alkali flats around the Great Salt Lake.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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We bees are nearly filling the hive called Deseret
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Mormans call it the "Deseret," which they claim means "The Land of the Honey-bee."
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"Deseret" is a word from the Book of Mormon which means honeybee or beehive.
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(Google "Deseret" sometime) and they'd probably be allies with gays so long as allowed to make their own tweaks to marriage definitions as well.
Queerty 2009
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"Deseret" is a Book of Mormon term (Ether 2: 3) meaning "honeybee."
Utah Policy - Politics, Communication & Government Relations 2009
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(CNN) – A new Deseret News/KSL poll indicates that 50 percent of Utah voters see Sen. Bob Bennett in a favorable light, with 39 percent holding an unfavorable view.
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