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Egypt

E·gypt

(ē′jĭpt)

A country of northeast Africa and the Sinai Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea. In ancient times it was a flourishing kingdom and one of the earliest known civilizations, known for its development of hieroglyphic writing and its achievements in agriculture, art, and architecture. It reached its height during the XVIII dynasty (1570-1342? bc) and declined after the seventh century bc, falling to various conquerors including the Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, French, and British. Although nominally independent after 1922, it remained a British protectorate until 1936. A military coup in 1952 overthrew King Farouk I's constitutional monarchy, and a republic was established the following year. From 1958 to 1961 it was joined to Syria as the United Arab Republic. Cairo is the capital and the largest city.

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Egypt

(ˈiːdʒɪpt)

(Placename) a republic in NE Africa, on the Mediterranean and Red Sea: its history dates back about 5000 years. Occupied by the British from 1882, it became an independent kingdom in 1922 and a republic in 1953. Over 96 per cent of the total area is desert, with the chief areas of habitation and cultivation in the Nile delta and valley. Cotton is the main export. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: Muslim; Sunni majority. Currency: pound. Capital: Cairo. Pop: 85 294 388 (2013 est). Area: 997 739 sq km (385 229 sq miles). Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt Former official name (1958–71): United Arab Republic

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E•gypt

(ˈi dʒɪpt)

n.

a country in NE Africa on the Mediterranean and Red seas. 67,273,906; 386,659 sq. mi. (1,001,449 sq. km). Cap.: Cairo. Arabic, Misr. Official name, Arab Republic of Egypt.

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Noun	1.	Egypt - 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 Arab Republic of Egypt, United Arab Republic 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 Aswan High Dam, High Dam - one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt 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-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule" al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest, Islamic Jihad - 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; "the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981" 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 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; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization" Sinai Peninsula, Sinai - 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 El Iskandriyah, Alexandria - 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; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby Al Qahira, capital of Egypt, Egyptian capital, El Qahira, Cairo - 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 El Alamein - a village to the west of Alexandria on the northern coast of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Germans in 1942 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 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 Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean 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 Egyptian - a native or inhabitant of Egypt
	2.	Egypt - an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament Egyptian Empire

Translations

مِصْر

Egypt

EgyptenÆgypten

Ägypten

Αίγυπτος

EgiptioEgiptujo

Egipto

Egiptus

Egypti

Égypte

Egipat

Egyiptom

Egyptaland

Egitto egiziano

エジプト

이집트

Aegyptus

Egipt

Egypt

Egipt

Egypten

ปะเทศอียิปต์

Mısır

Ai Cập

埃及

Egypt

[ˈiːdʒɪpt] N → Egipto m

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Egypt

[ˈiːdʒɪpt] n → Égypte f
in Egypt → en Égypte

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Egypt

n → Ägypten nt

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Egypt

[ˈiːdʒɪpt] n → Egitto

Egypt

→ مِصْر Egypt Egypten Ägypten Αίγυπτος Egipto Egypti Égypte Egipat Egitto エジプト 이집트 Egypte Egypt Egipt Egito Египет Egypten ปะเทศอียิปต์ Mısır Ai Cập 埃及

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It seems neither now nor very lately to have been known [1329b] to those philosophers who have made politics their study, that a city ought to be divided by families into different orders of men; and that the husbandmen and soldiers should be kept separate from each other; which custom is even to this day preserved in Egypt and in Crete; also Sesostris having founded it in Egypt, Minos in Crete.

(reason teaching us that want would make us first invent that which was necessary, and, when that was obtained, then those things which were requisite for the conveniences and ornament of life), so should we conclude the same with respect to a political state; now everything in Egypt bears the marks of the most remote antiquity, for these people seem to be the most ancient of all others, and to have acquired laws and political order; we should therefore make a proper use of what is told us of them, and endeavour to find out what they have omitted.

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His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed.

"To-night I go to Egypt," said the Swallow, and he was in high spirits at the prospect.

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His activity at that time was no less astounding than it was in Egypt, in Italy, in Austria, and in Prussia.

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"The same thing was decreed for him as for Jesus Christ; for, as a matter of fact, they give him orders to go on duty down in Egypt. See his resemblance to the Son of God!

" 'My friends, for the time being they are giving us Egypt to stop our mouths.

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This supplementary program also instructed the excursionists to provide themselves with light musical instruments for amusement in the ship, with saddles for Syrian travel, green spectacles and umbrellas, veils for Egypt, and substantial clothing to use in rough pilgrimizing in the Holy Land.

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Gliddon- and you, Silk -- who have travelled and resided in Egypt until one might imagine you to the manner born -- you, I say who have been so much among us that you speak Egyptian fully as well, I think, as you write your mother tongue -- you, whom I have always been led to regard as the firm friend of the mummies -- I really did anticipate more gentlemanly conduct from you.

"But what we are especially at a loss to understand," said Doctor Ponnonner, "is how it happens that, having been dead and buried in Egypt five thousand years ago, you are here to-day all alive and looking so delightfully well."

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The ancient Kings of Egypt conveyed the waters of the Nile to this place by an artificial canal, now so choked with sand, that there are scarce any marks remaining of so noble and beneficial a work.

The Nile runs here so near the shore that it might without much difficulty be turned through this opening of the mountains into the Red Sea, a design which many of the Emperors have thought of putting in execution, and thereby making a communication between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, but have been discouraged either by the greatness of the expense or the fear of laying great part of Egypt under water, for some of that country lies lower than sea.