Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The longest river in the world, flowing about 6,675 km (4,150 mi) through eastern Africa from its most remote sources in Burundi to a delta on the Mediterranean Sea in northeast Egypt. The main headstreams, the Blue Nile and the White Nile, join at Khartoum in Sudan to form the Nile proper. The river has been used for irrigation in Egypt since at least 4000 BC, a function now regulated largely by the Aswan High Dam.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The great river of Egypt.
- noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] The crocodile bird.
- noun (Zoöl.) the Egyptian goose. See Note under
Goose , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Usually considered to be the longest river in the world, the Nile flows 6,677 km (4,150 miles) through
Khartoum andCairo inAfrica into theMediterranean Sea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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"_Bruce won the source of the Blue Nile; Speke and Grant won the Victoria source of the great White Nile; and I have been permitted to succeed in completing the Nile Sources by the discovery of the great reservoir of the equatorial waters, the Albert N'yanza, from which the river issues as the entire White Nile_."
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THOMPKINS: But to Egypt, the Nile is a matter of national security.
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For Egyptians, the Nile is the bedrock of their economy and their history.
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For Egyptians, the Nile is the bedrock of their economy and their history.
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For Egyptians, the Nile is the bedrock of their economy and their history.
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For Egyptians, the Nile is the bedrock of their economy and their history.
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For Egyptians, the Nile is the bedrock of their economy and their history.
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He feels that he hag been well served by Britain, and the fellah on the Nile is as loyal to Great Britain as is the yyot on the Ganges.
The Relation of the United States to the Issues of the War 1916
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What he wanted to find was what he called the Nile Sauce; but he never found it, and we never wanted it.
Fitz the Filibuster George Manville Fenn 1870
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From it, Ptolemy appears to have passed to the Tacazze, which he calls the Nile, and to have penetrated into
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