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EGYPT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
empire; imperium (the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised)
Derivation:
Egyptian (of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Egypt"):
Nile; Nile River (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)
Lake Nasser; Nasser (lake in Egypt formed by dams built on the Nile River at Aswan)
Libyan Desert (the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan)
Arabian Desert; Eastern Desert (a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea)
Suez Canal (a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea)
Suez (a city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal)
Sakkara; Saqqara; Saqqarah (a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids)
Thebes (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)
El-Aksur; Luxor (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)
Memphis (an ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo))
El Giza; Giza; Gizeh (an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx)
El Alamein (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)
Al Qahira; Cairo; capital of Egypt; Egyptian capital; El Qahira (the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa, located near the ancient cities of Memphis (capital of the Pharaohs), Giza (the pyramids of Giza) and Fustat (the first capital of Egypt under Arab rule); a major port just south of the Nile delta)
Assouan; Assuan; Aswan (an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby)
Alexandria; El Iskandriyah (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)
Upper Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan)
Lower Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; consists of the Nile delta)
Sinai; Sinai Peninsula (a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea)
Aswan High Dam; High Dam (one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt)
Meronyms (members of "Egypt"):
Egyptian (a native or inhabitant of Egypt)
Domain member region:
al-Jihad; Egyptian Islamic Jihad; Islamic Jihad; Vanguards of Conquest (an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells)
al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya; Islamic Group (a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails)
Al Alamayn; Battle of El Alamein; El Alamein (a pitched battle in World War II (1942) resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel)
Holonyms ("Egypt" is a part of...):
Middle East; Mideast; Near East (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)
Africa (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)
Holonyms ("Egypt" is a member of...):
Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)
Derivation:
Egyptian (of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language)
Context examples:
Though probably present in towns in Palestine as long ago as 7000 years, actual domestication occurred in Egypt about 4000 years ago.
(Cat, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Denotes the inhabitants of Egypt, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.
(Egyptian, NCI Thesaurus)
Denotes a person having origins in a northern country of Africa such as Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, or Tunisia.
(North Coast of Africa, NCI Thesaurus)
Egypt authorities announced Saturday that archaeologists had discovered two small ancient tombs in Luxor, a southern city.
(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)
Each pigeon-hole had its label, and his eyes as he glanced along them read a long series of such titles as Fords, Harbour-defences, Aeroplanes, Ireland, Egypt, Portsmouth forts, The Channel, Rosythe, and a score of others.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"And it seems to me," Martin continued, "that knowledge of the land question, in turn, of all questions, for that matter, cannot be had without previous knowledge of the stuff and the constitution of life. How can we understand laws and institutions, religions and customs, without understanding, not merely the nature of the creatures that made them, but the nature of the stuff out of which the creatures are made? Is literature less human than the architecture and sculpture of Egypt? Is there one thing in the known universe that is not subject to the law of evolution? Oh, I know there is an elaborate evolution of the various arts laid down, but it seems to me to be too mechanical. The human himself is left out. The evolution of the tool, of the harp, of music and song and dance, are all beautifully elaborated; but how about the evolution of the human himself, the development of the basic and intrinsic parts that were in him before he made his first tool or gibbered his first chant? It is that which you do not consider, and which I call biology. It is biology in its largest aspects.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.
(African, NCI Thesaurus)
According to the researchers, sacrifice and mummification of sacred ibises was common in Egypt from about 664 b.c.e. to 250 c.e., from the twenty-sixth dynasty into the early period of Roman Egypt.
(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)
Egypt announced the discovery of a pharaonic tomb in the southern city of Luxor belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty.
(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
My hopes were all dead—struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
