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Egypt English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word Egypt once they have reached the level B1 – Lower Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning Egypt meaning

What does Egypt mean?

Definitions in simple English

Egypt Proper noun

— Egypt is a country of Africa. The capital city is Cairo.

Egypt

— noun (= United Arab Republic) 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

— noun (= Egyptian Empire) 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

Synonyms Egypt synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as Egypt?

Egypt English » English

Arab Republic of Egypt

United Arab Republic

Egyptian Empire

the Arab Republic of Egypt

Examples Egypt examples

How do I use Egypt in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I am from Egypt.

They have less rain in Egypt than in Japan.

What do they live on in Egypt?

What language do they speak in Egypt?

We associate Egypt with the Nile.

I wish to visit Egypt someday.

What language is spoken in Egypt?

The person from Egypt speaks Arabic.

There's a pyramid in Mexico bigger than any of those in Egypt.

The pyramids of Egypt are one of the seven wonders of the world.

We'll hide in Egypt.

They fought the Italians first in Egypt and Libya.

A few months later, Israel invaded Egypt.

Cats were sacred animals in ancient Egypt.

It is fact that he wants to visit Egypt.

That type of temple influenced all of the Middle East, mainly Egypt.

Acting on advice from his astronomers, Alexander the Great decided not to attack Egypt and went to India instead.

I really want to go to Egypt.

I want to visit Egypt some day.

Movie subtitles

Characters: Amenes, King of Egypt.

I come to Egypt, to your city, to humbly offer an alliance, to strenghten us against our enemies.

King Samlak enroute to Egypt.

And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead.

We didn't come to dig in Egypt for medals.

Come out under the stars of Egypt.

The gods of Egypt still live in these hills, in their ruined temples.

But when the best excavator England has turned out, a man who loved Egypt, said he'd never come back here, that meant something.

The real Egypt.

The language of Ancient Egypt, not heard on this earth for 2,000 years.

You know, I'd have liked Egypt better if I'd met you there, but no such luck.

Your native Egypt.

The scroll he ordered buried with me, that no such sacrilege might disgrace Egypt again.

Dreams of Ancient Egypt, I think.

He's going to Egypt with Father Enfantin to build a canal linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. A canal?

Do you have money for a trip to Egypt?

You can't swim to Egypt!

Let me tell you about Egypt.

The day after tomorrow, go to the port! A boat is leaving for Egypt!

I went to Egypt, and from Egypt I went to China, from China I went to Arabia.

Ah, Egypt! How wonderful!

Now, ladies and gentlemen next in our program the flower of Egypt the dancing wonder, Esmeralda.

Your Grace will recall she released Thorpe. after his attack upon my ship. and that on the heels of this offense she allowed the Albatross to sail. presumably to trade in Egypt.

I've been in Egypt. I remember a night in Egypt.

The khedive of Egypt?

I must go to Egypt sometime.

Team India's opponent is. Team Egypt.

Egypt has the best military power in Africa.

The film was produced with an unbelievable effort (two real palm trees) partly in Egypt,(a chalk quarry by Ruedesordorf).

The Young painter, Albert Wendland, takes a sejour to study in Egypt.

Some of them can be traced back as far as ancient Egypt, and beyond that yet, in the countries that was old when Egypt was young.

I wouldn't disturb you, but the friend I spoke to you about. is leaving town tomorrow to supervise some new excavations in Egypt.

We could spend the winter in the Riviera, and in Egypt and Greece.

No, but I know Egypt well.

I've been in Egypt.

I remember a night in Egypt.

Oh, yes, Egypt.

The north could be Egypt.

My father brought this to me from Egypt.

News and current affairs

He will be remembered for accepting the painful secession of Eritrea in 1993, rather than prolong the civil war, and for his efforts to reach an agreement with Egypt over the use of the Blue Nile waters.

It would also trigger uncontrolled regional nuclear proliferation, with Saudi Arabia and Egypt leading the way.

We need to enable countries like Egypt and Tunisia - and possibly a peaceful Libya - to strengthen their political stability through democratization.

In these volatile circumstances, greater attention must be given to the national interests of countries such as Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel.

A more positive view of Obama emerged when the Arab revolts began in Tunisia and Egypt -countries with pro-US regimes.

Arab countries, especially Egypt, had hundreds of thousands of their nationals working in Libya.

It is also important to bear in mind that in 1973, the US suffered less from the OPEC oil embargo than Europe did, even though America, which had resupplied Israel in its war with Egypt and Syria in October of that year, was the primary target.

In the end, America's position in the region strengthened after Egypt became a US ally and made peace with Israel.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's recent tour of Middle East capitals helped spread the word to Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states that any US failure and sudden withdrawal would be certain to destabilize them.

After all, Egypt is the heart, brain, and nerve center of the Arab world.

The Egypt-Israel peace treaty has kept Egypt comfortably neutralized, freeing the US to commit its strategic resources elsewhere.

In turn, Egypt, propped up by massive US aid, has secured the region from a larger conflagration, even though the Israel-Palestine conflict has continued to smolder.

For years, Prof. Ibrahim headed the Cairo-based Ibn-Khaldun Institute, which undertook, with the European Union's encouragement, pioneering studies on women and minority rights, as well as electoral practices, in Egypt.

What, for example, will happen to a country as central and vulnerable as Egypt when hundred of thousands of Egyptians working in the Gulf are forced to return to their homeland as a result of the crisis in the oil-producing countries?

Their appetite for change - understandable, given the treatment of women in traditional Muslim societies - appears to be one of the main causes underlying the force of the revolutionary impulse in Tunisia and Egypt.

Egypt's heir apparent Gamal Mubarak followed suit in the fourth week of the fighting by heading a 70-member delegation on a solidarity visit to Beirut.

Current events, not just in Libya, but also in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain, mirror the political complexity of these countries.

Within months, Islamist parties shaped by the Brotherhood's ideology had replaced secular dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and seemed poised to take over Yemen and Syria, largely because they were the only well-organized political movements on the scene.

Moreover, the Muslim Brotherhood gained control of Egypt, the largest and most influential of the Arab Spring countries.

In fact, the absence of a specific ideology was essential to the Arab Spring's initial success in Egypt and Tunisia, for it allowed a large number of young activists to forge loose alliances.

And regional players like South Africa, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, and South Korea among others, will also have to be reckoned with in future regional disputes.

No one can predict the direction in which Egypt's Sunni Islamist president and parliamentary majority will lead the country.

In the days and weeks ahead, there could arise occasions when the news from Cairo is not uplifting, but let us never forget that Egypt has taken a giant step, which in reality is a giant step for all Arabs.

Of course, a grave question arises about the now-ruling Supreme Council of the Military High Command in Egypt: How can the enforcers of the status quo become the agents of change?

Clearly, Israeli-Palestinian negotiations will also now lie unattended as Israel concentrates on developments in Egypt.