egypt
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1. an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament (noun.location)
instance hypernym | : | empire, imperium, |
definition | : | the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised (noun.location) |
2. a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC (noun.location)
part holonym | : | aswan high dam, high dam, |
definition | : | one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt (noun.artifact) |
part holonym | : | sinai, sinai peninsula, |
definition | : | a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | lower egypt, |
definition | : | one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; consists of the Nile delta (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | upper egypt, |
definition | : | one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | alexandria, el iskandriyah, |
definition | : | the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | assouan, assuan, aswan, |
definition | : | an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | el alamein, |
definition | : | a village to the west of Alexandria on the northern coast of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Germans in 1942 (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | el giza, giza, gizeh, |
definition | : | an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | memphis, |
definition | : | an ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo) (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | el-aksur, luxor, |
definition | : | a city in central Egypt on the east bank of the Nile that is a center for visitors to the ruins of and around Thebes (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | thebes, |
definition | : | an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile River that flourished from the 22nd century BC to the 18th century BC; today the archeological remains include many splendid temples and tombs (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | sakkara, saqqara, saqqarah, |
definition | : | a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | suez, |
definition | : | a city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | suez canal, |
definition | : | a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | libyan desert, |
definition | : | the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan (noun.location) |
part holonym | : | lake nasser, nasser, |
definition | : | lake in Egypt formed by dams built on the Nile River at Aswan (noun.object) |
part holonym | : | nile, nile river, |
definition | : | the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization (noun.object) |
part meronym | : | middle east, mideast, near east, |
definition | : | the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century (noun.location) |
part meronym | : | africa, |
definition | : | the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean (noun.object) |
member holonym | : | egyptian, |
definition | : | a native or inhabitant of Egypt (noun.person) |
member meronym | : | arab league, |
definition | : | an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation (noun.group) |
domain member region | : | al alamayn, battle of el alamein, el alamein, |
definition | : | a pitched battle in World War II (1942) resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel (noun.act) |
domain member region | : | al-gama'a al-islamiyya, islamic group, |
definition | : | a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails (noun.group) |
3. an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament (noun.location)
derivation | : | egyptian, egyptian, |
definition | : | of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language (adj.pert) |
derivation | : | egyptian, egyptian, |
definition | : | of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language (adj.pert) |
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