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Zillah

Zillah \Zil"lah\, n. [Ar. zila.] A district or local division, as of a province. [India]

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zillah

n. A district or local division, as of a province, in India.

Gazetteer
Zillah, WA -- U.S. city in Washington
Population (2000): 2198
Housing Units (2000): 837
Land area (2000): 1.215799 sq. miles (3.148906 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.215799 sq. miles (3.148906 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80500
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.403561 N, 120.260696 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 98953
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Zillah

Zillah may refer to:

Government
  • Zillah or Zilla, a country subdivision (translated as "district") in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, see also Zila Parishad (disambiguation).
Literature
  • Zillah, a vampire from Lost Souls, by Poppy Z Brite
  • Zillah, the wife of Abel in Cain, by Lord Byron
  • Zillah, a character from Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford, portrayed by Liz Smith in the first series of the BBC adaptation
  • Zillah is a female given name
  • Zillah, a character from Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Brontë
Places
  • Zillah, Washington, the name of a city in Yakima County, Washington
  • Zella, a town in the Tripolitania Region, south of the Gulf of Sidra in north-central Libya.
Religion
  • Zillah (in Hebrew צִלָּה Tselah), a wife of Lamech, a descendant of Cain
Ships
  • USS Zillah (SP-2804), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy in 1918
Zillah (country subdivision)

A Zilā or Zilla or Zillah or Jela ( Urdu: ضِلع, Hindi: ज़िला, ) is a country subdivision in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. It is translated as district.

  • districts of Pakistan (Zila, below division)
  • districts of India (Zila, below states)
  • districts of Bangladesh (Zila, below division)
  • See also Zila Parishad (disambiguation)

Usage examples of "zillah".

Miss Zillah Grey had been dramatic and the fact that they had burst so unexpectedly into our peaceful existence made them more so.

I spent a good deal of time with Zillah Grey, I felt I did not really learn a great deal about her.

Could it be that my father had wanted Lilias out of the house so that he could conveniently bring Zillah Grey in .

I knew she was thinking that it would be difficult to imagine Zillah Grey as the mistress of a staid Edinburgh residence.

They had carried my father so far that he had not only brought a woman like Zillah Grey into the house but had actually married her.

It was easier to arrange our meetings now that Zillah knew and clearly wanted to make things easy for us.

I was pleased to have Zillah in the house because she understood my feelings, laughed at the conventions and could advise me what to do.

He was wearing his dressing gown, but Zillah had said she thought it would be better for him to come to the dining room.

It began when Zillah came to usno, before thatwhen Lilias was dismissed.

There was a little more chatmostly between him and Zillah then he rose to go.

I recalled his anger over my friendship with Jamie and his outraged dismissal of Kitty and how Zillah had crept into his bedroom at night.

I had thought he had some regard for me, but from the moment he had seen Zillah he had become bemused by her.

So, Zillah had said, that she could spend every possible moment with me.

I had not suffered such bitter disillusionment over Jamie, if Ninian had not shown such an interest in Zillah, I might have faced my true feelings towards him.

I passed the garden and thought of Jamie, and Zillah who had found us there.