Definition of "chosen people" []

• See people. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Jewish hopes of a Messiah, and the descriptions of apocalyptic writers were blended; it was between the close of the present world-order and the commencement of the new that this sublime kingdom of the chosen people was to find its place."
• "What we concentrated on was Naymeer, and his use of the flume to show his chosen people the other worlds of Halla, and how he planned on creating a superrace of achievers to control all that exists, at the expense of those who might have less to offer."
• "Palestine -- the "descender," if not "the river of God" in the book of Psalms, at least that of his chosen people throughout their history."