EGYPT

Pronunciation (US):

• EGYPT (noun)
  The noun EGYPT has 2 senses:

1. 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
2. an ancient empire west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament

  Familiarity information: EGYPT used as a noun is rare.

• 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 "Egypt"):

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)

Arabian Desert; Eastern Desert (a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea)

Libyan Desert (the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan)

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)

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 west of Alexandria on the north coast of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Germans in 1942)

Aswan Dam; Aswan High Dam; High Dam (one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt)

Sinai; Sinai Peninsula (a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea)

Lower Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; consists of the Nile delta)

Upper Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan)

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)

Assouan; Assuan; Aswan (an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; site of the Aswan High Dam)

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)

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 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)

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)

Meaning:

An ancient empire west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Egyptian Empire; Egypt

Instance hypernyms:

empire; imperium (the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised)