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NAG HAMMADI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism
Synonyms:
Nag Hammadi; Nag Hammadi Library
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A town in Upper Egypt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Nag Hammadi" is a part of...):
Upper Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan)
