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

  • A city of northern Egypt, an industrial suburb of Cairo on the Nile River. The Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are nearby.

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  • proper noun A city on the west bank of the Nile river in Egypt, famous for its ancient monuments, including the Great Sphinx of Giza and the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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

  • noun an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx

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Examples

  • Under the scheme, the voice heard at the tiny mosques in Giza will be the same one issuing from the giant mosque at the Citadel across the valley, and the two calls will begin and end together.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Syncing the muezzin 2006

  • The bar at the Mena House Hotel, in Giza, has half a dozen floor-to-ceiling windows, and the view of the Great Pyramid of Khufu fills them all.

    Letter From Egypt P. J. O'Rourke 2002

  • The bar at the Mena House Hotel, in Giza, has half a dozen floor-to-ceiling windows, and the view of the Great Pyramid of Khufu fills them all.

    Letter From Egypt P. J. O'Rourke 2002

  • President Mubarak himself raised the topic of garbage in Giza aka the Giza Garbage crisis in his last meeting with the cabinet.

    Qwaider Planet 2009

  • tands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, near modern-day Cairo, Egypt.

    Where On Google Earth Can You Find These Monuments? | myFiveBest 2010

  • The Great pyramid of Giza is to be found arguably at the centre of the earth’s landmass (30 degrees north, 31 degrees east) – both north-south and east-west.

    Name Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • When we first set up shop in a dusty film studio in Giza, which is the town next to Cairo, I found Dr. Sala on the back lot, aging some of our sets with silt from the Nile.

    Doug Liman: Fair Game in the Middle East Doug Liman 2010

  • When we first set up shop in a dusty film studio in Giza, which is the town next to Cairo, I found Dr. Sala on the back lot, aging some of our sets with silt from the Nile.

    Doug Liman: Fair Game in the Middle East Doug Liman 2010

  • As the great and mystical saying Om turns from a circle into a square as it reaches “mmm”, so too this great collection of human thought and quantum emotion turns into a square base at the great pyramid in Giza.

    Name Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • It stood at the point where the lush river valley of Cairo met the edge of the Western Desert, on a raised section of cliffs called the Giza Plateau.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

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