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Meaning of "Upper Egypt" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UPPER EGYPT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UPPER EGYPT

noun
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determiner
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Upper Egypt is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UPPER EGYPT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt is the strip of land, on both sides of the Nile valley, that extends between Nubia, and downriver to Lower Egypt.

Definition of Upper Egypt in the English dictionary

The definition of Upper Egypt in the dictionary is one of the four main traditional administrative districts of Egypt: extends south from Cairo to the Sudan.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UPPER EGYPT

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upper back
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Upper Canada
upper case
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upper circle
upper class
upper classes
upper crust
upper deck
upper hand
upper house
upper income bracket
upper jaw
Upper Karoo
upper lip
Upper Lough Erne

WORDS THAT END LIKE UPPER EGYPT

accept
adopt
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Arab Republic of Egypt
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Egypt
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eucalypt
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Lower Egypt
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Synonyms and antonyms of Upper Egypt in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Upper Egypt» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UPPER EGYPT

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

Translator English - Chinese

上埃及
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

el Alto Egipto
570 millions of speakers

English

Upper Egypt
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऊपरी मिस्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صعيد مصر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Верхний Египет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Alto Egito
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উচ্চ মিশর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Haute-Égypte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mesir atas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oberägypten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

上エジプト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어퍼 이집트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mesir sisih lor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thượng Ai Cập
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேல் எகிப்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उच्च इजिप्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yukarı Mısır
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Alto Egitto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

górny Egipt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

верхній Єгипет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Egiptul de Sus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Άνω Αίγυπτο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bo-Egipte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Övre Egypten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

øvre Egypt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Upper Egypt

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UPPER EGYPT»

The term «Upper Egypt» is regularly used and occupies the 107.106 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UPPER EGYPT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Upper Egypt» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Upper Egypt» 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 Upper Egypt

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPPER EGYPT»

Discover the use of Upper Egypt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Upper Egypt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Upper Egypt: Identity and Change
New studies of Upper Egypt's social dynamics
Nicholas S. Hopkins, Reem Saad, 2004
2
Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Nag Hammadi - Esna
New studies in the development and spread of early Christianity in the Naqada region of southern Egypt
Gawdat Gabra, Hany N. Takla, 2010
3
Upper Egypt: Its People and Its Products
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
C. B. Klunzinger, 2009
4
Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt: A Study of Spirit Possession
A classic anthropological case study from the 1930s, translated into English for the first time
Hans Alexander Winkler, 2009
5
Upper Egypt
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Karl Benjamin Klunzinger, 2010
6
For the Living and the Dead: The Funerary Laments of Upper ...
culture of the Middle East." --Book Jacket.
Elizabeth Wickett, 2010
7
The fellāhīn of Upper Egypt
Winifred Blackman's The Fellahin of Upper Egypt, brought back into print in this paperback edition, is a classic in the field of anthropology and a pioneering work by one of the earliest trained ethnographers to work in Egypt.
Winifred Susan Blackman, 1927
8
Elijah in Upper Egypt: The Apocalypse of Elijah and Early ...
This outstanding collection of penetrating studies deals with women in ancient Israel and Israelite religion, the creation stories in Genesis, harlots and hierodules, and the hermeneutics and authority of the Bible.
David Frankfurter, 1993
9
Empire and Its Discontents: Modernity and Subaltern Revolt ...
This study argues that as the world progressed toward modern imperialism and its alleged modernity, Qina province endured irreversible peripheralization and marginalization, a fate that it might have shared with many other small places in ...
Zeinab A. Abul-Magd, 2008
10
A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt
OF. ANCIENT. EGYPT. The Amarna Age ' James Baikie Ancient Egypt the Light of the World ' Gerald Massey Ancient Egyptian Literature ' Adolf Erman Ancient Egyptian Scarabs and Cylinder Seals ° Percy Newberry Arts and Crafts of Ancient ...
Arthur E. P. Weigall, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UPPER EGYPT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Upper Egypt is used in the context of the following news items.
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Female genital mutilation: Why Egyptian girls fear the summer
Mona Mohamed was 10 years old when she underwent what's also known as a female circumcision on a hot summer day in her village in Upper Egypt. «CNN, Jun 15»
2
El Sewedy Electric to develop solar power plant in Upper Egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian cable maker El Sewedy Electric said on Sunday it had entered into an agreement to develop a 50 megawatt solar energy power ... «Reuters Africa, Jun 15»
3
Egyptian Scrolls Reveal Hangover Cure
Under translation until now, this current volume was among 500,000 others discovered in Oxyrhynchus—a city in Upper Egypt—in 1915. The papryi made its ... «Daily Beast, Apr 15»
4
Egypt signs 18 agreements worth $86B at economic conference
According to one of the four memoranda, a combined power plant will be established in Beni Sueif (Upper Egypt) with capacity of 11.004 megawatts. «The Cairo Post, Mar 15»
5
Bomb blast in Egypt tourist town Aswan kills two: police
Aswan is one of two main tourist towns in Upper Egypt, along with Luxor. Egypt has been hit by a wave of bombings and shootings since the military ousted ... «Yahoo News, Mar 15»
6
Libya killings: Who were the 21 Copts?
Thirteen of the 21 men are from the same Upper Egyptian village of Al-Our, in Minya, and the remaining victims are from Al-Jibali and other villages, Egypt's ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
7
17 new Egyptian provincial governors sworn-in; only 3 from military
Wael Mohamed Makram (Fayoum, Upper Egypt): A judge who occupied positions at the Illicit Gains Authority in Alexandria, Red Sea, Kafr El-Sheikh and ... «Ahram Online, Feb 15»
8
Egypt provides land for UAE-built sugar factory
The UAE's Al Ghurair Group has won approval from Egypt's cabinet for the ... for the construction of a new sugar factory in the Minya governorate in Upper Egypt. «The National, Dec 14»
9
UK lifts travel restriction in central Upper Egypt
British ambassador to Egypt John Casson travelled to Minya on Saturday, marking the lifting of his country's travel restriction to central Upper Egypt. The lifting of ... «Daily News Egypt, Nov 14»
10
Three-way microbus crash kills 30 in Upper Egypt, injures 15
Thirty people people died and 15 were injured when three microbuses crashed near Aswan on Monday morning, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. «Ahram Online, Oct 14»

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