Dictionary entry details
• ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT (noun)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic
Instance hypernyms:
African country; African nation (countries occupying the African continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Arab Republic of Egypt"):
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)
Libyan Desert (the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan)
Memphis (an ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo))
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)
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)
Sakkara; Saqqara; Saqqarah (a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids)
Suez (a city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal)
Suez Canal (a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea)
El Alamein (a village west of Alexandria on the north 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; a major port just south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs)
Assouan; Assuan; Aswan (an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; site of the Aswan High Dam)
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)
Lake Nasser; Nasser (lake in Egypt formed by dams built on the Nile River at Aswan)
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)
Aswan Dam; Aswan High Dam; High Dam (one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt)
Arabian Desert; Eastern Desert (a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea)
Meronyms (members of "Arab Republic 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 ("Arab Republic of 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 south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
Holonyms ("Arab Republic of 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)
OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)
