EGYPTIANS Synonyms
There are 7 hypernyms of the word egyptians. (close relations)
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| ancient | adjectiveadj | |||||
noun • a very old person • a person who lived in ancient times adjective satellite • belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire • very old | ||||||
| cairo | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers • the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs | ||||||
| hieroglyphics | nounn | |||||
adjective • resembling hieroglyphic writing • written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols noun • writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) • a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | ||||||
| mummies | nounn | |||||
noun • informal terms for a mother • a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt) | ||||||
| pharaohs | nounn | |||||
noun • the title of the ancient Egyptian kings | ||||||
| nile | nounn | |||||
noun • 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 | ||||||
| egyptian language | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC | ||||||
