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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Garrison Keillor

Meaning of "elephantine" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ELEPHANTINE

elephantine  [ˌɛlɪˈfæntaɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELEPHANTINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Elephantine is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ELEPHANTINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

elephantine

Elephantine

Elephantine is an island in the Nile River in northern Nubia. It is a part of the modern city of Aswan, in southern Egypt. There are archaeological sites on the island.

Definition of elephantine in the English dictionary

The definition of elephantine in the dictionary is denoting, relating to, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants. Other definition of elephantine is huge, clumsy, or ponderous.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ELEPHANTINE


adamantine
ˌædəˈmæntaɪn
amarantine
ˌæməˈræntaɪn
argentine
ˈɑːdʒənˌtaɪn
Bernstein
ˈbɜːnstaɪn
bisontine
bɪˈsɒntaɪn
cispontine
sɪsˈpɒntaɪn
Constantine
ˈkɒnstənˌtaɪn
Corybantine
ˌkɒrɪˈbæntaɪn
diamantine
ˌdaɪəˈmæntaɪn
Einstein
ˈaɪnstaɪn
Frankenstein
ˈfræŋkɪnˌstaɪn
Holstein
ˈhəʊlstaɪn
Liechtenstein
ˈlɪktənˌstaɪn
Palestine
ˈpælɪˌstaɪn
stein
staɪn
tine
taɪn
transpontine
trænzˈpɒntaɪn
Tridentine
traɪˈdɛntaɪn
Tyne
taɪn
valentine
ˈvælənˌtaɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELEPHANTINE

elephant
elephant bird
elephant fish
elephant foot
elephant grass
elephant gun
elephant in the room
elephant seal
elephant shrew
elephant´s-ear
elephant´s-foot
elephantiasic
elephantiasis
elephantoid
elephants
Eleusinian
Eleusinian mysteries
Eleusis
eleutherarch
eleutheri

WORDS THAT END LIKE ELEPHANTINE

Aventine
barkentine
barquentine
brigantine
brilliantine
Byzantine
clementine
dentine
eglantine
Florentine
galantine
intine
levantine
nicotine
oil of turpentine
quarantine
serpentine
spirits of turpentine
the Argentine
tontine
turpentine

Synonyms and antonyms of elephantine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ELEPHANTINE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «elephantine» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of elephantine

Translation of «elephantine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ELEPHANTINE

Find out the translation of elephantine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of elephantine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «elephantine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

大象
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

elefantina
570 millions of speakers

English

elephantine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हाथी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفنتين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

слоновий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

elephantine
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হস্তিতুল্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

éléphantesque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Elephantine
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

elefantenartig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

象の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

코끼리의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Elephantine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về voi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

elephantine
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हत्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fil gibi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

elefantino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

elephantine
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

слонячий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Elephantine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ελέφαντα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Olifant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

elephantine
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Elephantine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of elephantine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ELEPHANTINE»

The term «elephantine» is normally little used and occupies the 116.823 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ELEPHANTINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «elephantine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «elephantine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about elephantine

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2 QUOTES WITH «ELEPHANTINE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word elephantine.
1
Madeleine Albright
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
2
Garrison Keillor
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELEPHANTINE»

Discover the use of elephantine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to elephantine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of ...
175 documents, spanning more than 3,000 years, from the ancient mounds on the island of Elephantine are translated into English here for the first time.
Bezalel Porten, 1996
2
Studies in the Aramaic Legal Papyri from Elephantine
Long recognized as a brilliant cross-cultural study, Yochanan Muffs work analyzes the legal formulary of the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine, at the first cataract of the Nile, where a Persian garrison comprised of Jewish soldiers and their ...
Yochanan Muffs, Baruch A. Levine, 2003
3
The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An ...
Alejandro Botta locates the Aramaic legal formulary in the context of the Egyptian legal tradition and looks at the influence of foreign legal practices on other formulae which do not have their roots in Egypt.
Alejandro F. Botta, 2011
4
Die Siegelabrollungen und Rollsiegel Der Stadt Elephantine ...
Excavations in the town of Elephantine between 1972 and 1991 uncovered more than 1600 clay seals, cylinder seals and various other sealing materials, forming one of the largest and most important seal assemblages from an urban Early ...
Jean-Pierre Pätznick, 2005
5
Discovering the World of the Bible
A well-preserved papyrus document located in the Turin Museum and written about 1150 B.C. tells of the "Elephantine Scandal," wherein a priest of the Temple of Khnum was charged with thefts, bribery, sacrilege, and adultery. He was also ...
LaMar C. Berrett, 1996
6
Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
The “Eloquent Peasant” of Herakleopolis 131 The deities of the Elephantine and the first cataract of the Nile—Khnum, Satet, and Atet. the same capacity in the region. The Elephantine Island was always considered militarily strategic. A small  ...
Margaret Bunson, 2009
7
Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient ...
Six papyrus letters belonging to Yedaniah son of Gemariah, the leader of a community from Judah on Elephantine Island on the southern border of Egypt, were discovered in 1907 by German archaeologists. They are currently housed in the ...
Victor Harold Matthews, Don C. Benjamin, 1997
8
Ancient Israel: Its Life and Institutions
Similarly, the post-exilic community of Palestine had no sanctuary except Jerusalem, but we do know that during this period there were two sanctuaries of Yahweh outside Palestine, one at Elephantine and the other at Leontopolis; in addition, ...
Roland De Vaux, 1997
9
Elephantine: The Foundation of the Jewish Temple at Yeb
The discovery of the Elephantine scrolls on the island of Yeb, near Aswan in Upper Egypt, provided hard evidence for the destruction of a Jewish temple in 410 BCE, but little that would indicate a date for its establishment.
Nancy O. Meyer, 2007
10
The Religious Polemics of Amos: Studies in the Preaching of ...
The Goddess Ashima and the Elephantine Papyri It was only after the publication of the Elephantine papyri that the discussion about the biblical Ashima really started. In the famous temple tax list that was found in 1906/07 and published for  ...
Hans M. Barstad, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELEPHANTINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term elephantine is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Dennis Potter: one of the last great masters of vituperation
... which, and even jeered at the BBC, his most important TV patron, as a 'delicately elephantine,' 'stodgily inflexible' 'ramshackle anachronism'. «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
'Ant-Man': 5 Ways Marvel's New Movie Gets Weird and Emotional
Appropriately, “Ant-Man” feels like the smallest Marvel Studios production yet, but that could work in its favor. After the elephantine “Avengers: ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
WCCFtech Deals: 72% Off Ginormous 18000mAh Battery Pack
That's why we're offering a positively elephantine Power Vault with 18,000mAh of battery capacity for $29.99, 72% off it's normal $109 price. «WCCFtech, Jul 15»
4
The mystery of the iMac's granddaddy: The Twentieth Anniversary …
... and elephantine peripherals such as the LaserWriter 8500. This stuff was big and imposing and there, but in contrast, the TAM looked flat and ... «Macworld, Jul 15»
5
Zeno Clash dev teases surreal survival sim The Endless Cylinder
... pine cone trees, elephantine automobiles and a colossal worm that stretch across the horizon. Perhaps that's the endless cylinder of the title? «Eurogamer.net, Jul 15»
6
Woolly Mammoth Genome Study Reveals Secrets
This led the team to draw conclusions that the mammoth version of TRPV3 played a role in keeping the ancient elephantine mammals from ... «New Historian, Jul 15»
7
Seeing Victoria Falls and feeding Earth's largest land animal
Sitting on an elephantine foreleg, I marvel at the memory that, in the bush, I'd thought of the creature as my protector rather than a potential ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
8
What we had to endure
In one such meeting held in Islamabad, while passing through a security barrier I started sweating profusely upon the sight of an elephantine ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Peanuts for elephantine disaster
Two senior leaders and MPs from PDP have called for pulling out of the coalition with the BJP over the issue of central assistance particularly ... «Kashmir Times, Jul 15»
10
What's Changed, and What Hasn't, in the Town That Inspired "To Kill …
... the Piggly Wiggly and the pawn shops, the elephantine Walmart, reachable from the bypass road, where the fast-food joints have put most of the local eateries ... «Smithsonian, Jul 15»

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