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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts, which survives only as a liturgical language of the Coptic Church.
  • adjective Of or relating to the Copts, the Coptic Church, or the Coptic language.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the Copts, as distinct from the Arabians and other inhabitants of modern Egypt. See II.
  • noun A Copt.
  • noun The language of the Copts, descended from the ancient Egyptian (of the Hamitic family of languages), and used in Egypt till within the last two centuries, but now superseded as a living language by Arabic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Copts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Copts, Coptic Orthodox Church or to the Coptic language.
  • noun The Coptic language of Egypt.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the liturgical language of the Coptic Church used in Egypt and Ethiopia; written in the Greek alphabet
  • adjective of or relating to the Copts or their church or language or art

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