Definition of Nile River

1. 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.

Exact synonyms: Nile
Group relationships: Arab Republic Of Egypt, Egypt, United Arab Republic, Republic Of The Sudan, Soudan, Sudan, Republic Of Uganda, Uganda
Generic synonyms: River
Derivative terms: Nilotic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nile River

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Nikolai Lenin
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Nikolaos
Nikolas
Nikolayev
Nikolayevsk
Nikoleta
Nikolis
Nikolsky
Nikolsky's sign
Nikopol
Nikos
Nile
Nile River (current term)
Nile blue
Nile blue A
Nile crocodile
Nile green
Nile perch
Nilgiri Hills
Nilo-
Nilo-Saharan
Nilo-Saharan language
Niloscope
Niloscopes
Nilotic
Nilotic language
Nilphamari District

Literary usage of Nile River

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"The tit nus of the name Shihor to the Nile must be rememberer NILE; RIVER OF EGYPT; SIHOR.] KS 1'. » It is difficult to adjust all the Biblical ..."

2. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... —The Nile according to Abdul Hassan Ali—Abu AM Allah Mohammed on the Nile river. EVERY reader of this chapter will agree with Pere ..."

3. Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East; Alternative Strategies by Masahiro Murakami (1995)
"2.19A and 2.19B. 2.4 The Nile River Despite the great area of the Middle East, there are only three rivers, the Nile, the Euphrates, and the Tigris, ..."

4. Profiting from Chaos: Using Chaos Theory for Market Timing, Stock Selection by Tonis Vaga (1994)
"Hurst was involved in the Nile River Dam Project near the ... Hence the stock market, as the Nile River tends to produce periods of consistently above ..."

5. The World Visualized for the Classroom: 1000 Travel Studies Through the by Frank Morton McMurry, Underwood & Underwood (1915)
"637 The Rhine at Coblenz, Germany. •838 The Rhine at Cologne, Germany. 666 The River Meuse, France. •736 The Arno at Florence, Italy. •798 The Nile River, ..."

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