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egypt
has definitions from the fields of Old Testament,geography,government
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[ noun ] (government,geography) 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
Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)In the Middle_East , Iraq , Syria and Egypt were , a short while ago , in the Western camp . (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)Being somewhat delicate in health , at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe , for which he at_once developed a passion , so that he spent nearly all_of the following ten years abroad , at_first in Italy , then in Greece , Egypt , Asia_Minor , and Palestine . Related terms African_country Arab_League Organization_of_Petroleum-Exporting_Countries Egyptian Africa Middle_East Libyan_Desert Alexandria Sinai el_alamein Cairo Aswan El_Alamein Aswan_High_Dam upper_egypt Nile Memphis thebes Saqqara suez suez_canal lake_nasser Luxor Giza lower_egypt al-jihad al-gama'a_al-islamiyya El_Alamein |
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[ noun ] (Old Testament,geography) 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
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